§ 382. — Seizure of piratical vessels generally.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC382]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 7--REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY
Sec. 382. Seizure of piratical vessels generally
The President is authorized to instruct the commanders of the public
armed vessels of the United States to subdue, seize, take, and send into
any port of the United States, any armed vessel or boat, or any vessel
or boat, the crew whereof shall be armed, and which shall have attempted
or committed any piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation,
or seizure, upon any vessel of the United States, or of the citizens
thereof, or upon any other vessel; and also to retake any vessel of the
United States, or its citizens, which may have been unlawfully captured
upon the high seas.
(R.S. Sec. 4294.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 4294 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 77, Sec. 2, 3
Stat. 512; Jan. 30, 1823, ch. 7, 3 Stat. 721.
