Maritime Security Act of 1996

Pub. L. 104–239

US Codex doesn’t hold the enacted text of this law — the public-law corpus runs from the 113th Congress (2013) onward. What it changed in the U.S. Code, reconstructed from the credit notes, is listed below.

22 sections of the Code credited to this law, found between Public Law 104-98 and Public Law 104-333.

• 46A U.S.C. § 808 — Registration, enrollment, and licensing of vessels purchased, chartered, or leased; unlawful transactions; penalties
• 46A U.S.C. § 1132 — Reemployment rights for certain merchant seamen
• 46A U.S.C. § 1162 — Limitation on restrictions
• 46A U.S.C. § 1175 — Vessels excluded from subsidy
• 46A U.S.C. § 1185a — Wind-up of program
• 46A U.S.C. § 1187 — Establishment of Fleet
• 46A U.S.C. § 1187a — Operating agreements
• 46A U.S.C. § 1187b — National security requirements
• 46A U.S.C. § 1187c — Definitions
• 46A U.S.C. § 1187d — Authorization of appropriations
• 46A U.S.C. § 1187e — Noncontiguous domestic trades
• 46A U.S.C. § 1222 — Operating competing foreign-flag vessel forbidden
• 46A U.S.C. § 1223 — Forbidden practices relating to coastwise service, salaries, officers, and employees
• 46A U.S.C. § 1241f — Shipment requirements for certain exports sponsored by Department of Agriculture
• 46A U.S.C. § 1271 — Definitions
• 46A U.S.C. § 1273 — Authorization of Secretary to guarantee obligations
• 46A U.S.C. § 1274 — Eligibility for guarantee
• 46A U.S.C. § 1274a — Authorization of Secretary to guarantee obligations arising from statutorily mandated change in standards for operation of vessels
• 46A U.S.C. § 1279c — Ocean thermal energy conversion demonstration facilities and plantships
• 46A U.S.C. § 1294 — Expiration of authority to provide insurance
• 50A U.S.C. § 1744 — National Defense Reserve Fleet
• 50 U.S.C. § 4405 — Transferred