2015 US Code
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters (Sections 1 - 4009)
Chapter 28 - Pollution Casualties on the High Seas: United States Intervention (Sections 1471 - 1487)
Sec. 1487 - Effective date
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS CHAPTER 28 - POLLUTION CASUALTIES ON THE HIGH SEAS: UNITED STATES INTERVENTION Sec. 1487 - Effective date |
| Contains | section 1487 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2016 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Pub. L. 93-248, §18, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 10. |
| Statutes at Large References | 88 Stat. 10 92 Stat. 345 |
| Public and Private Laws | Public Law 93-248, Public Law 95-302 |
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This chapter shall be effective upon February 5, 1974, or upon the date the convention becomes effective as to the United States, whichever is later.
(Pub. L. 93–248, §18, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 10.)
REFERENCES IN TEXTThe date the convention became effective as to the United States, referred to in text, is May 6, 1975.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1978 AMENDMENTPub. L. 95–302, §2, June 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 345, provided that: "This Act [amending sections 1471 to 1473, 1479, 1482, and 1484 of this title] shall be effective upon the date of enactment [June 26, 1978], or upon the date the protocol becomes effective as to the United States, whichever is later." [The protocol was adopted by the United States on Sept. 7, 1978, to be effective as to the United States upon its adoption by 15 countries. The protocol became effective as to the United States Mar. 30, 1983.
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