§ 256. — Jurisdiction of consular officers in disputes between seamen.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC256]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 6--FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICERS
Sec. 256. Jurisdiction of consular officers in disputes between
seamen
Whenever it is stipulated by treaty or convention between the United
States and any foreign nation that the consul general, consuls, vice
consuls, or consular or commercial agents of each nation, shall have
exclusive jurisdiction of controversies, difficulties, or disorders
arising at sea or in the waters or ports of the other nation, between
the master or officers and any of the crew, or between any of the crew
themselves, of any vessel belonging to the nation represented by such
consular officer, such stipulations shall be executed and enforced
within the jurisdiction of the United States as declared in sections 257
and 258 of this title. But before this section shall take effect as to
the vessels of any particular nation having such treaty with the United
States, the President shall be satisfied that similar provisions have
been made for the execution of such treaty by the other contracting
party, and shall issue his proclamation to that effect, declaring this
section to be in force as to such nation.
(R.S. Sec. 4079.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 4079 derived from act June 11, 1864, ch. 116, Sec. 1, 13
Stat. 121.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 257 of this title.
