United States Code
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§ 195.
Definitions
In this Act:
(1)
The term “United States” includes all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
(2)
The term “territorial waters of the United States” includes all waters of the territorial sea of the United States as described in Presidential Proclamation 5928 of December 27, 1988 .
(June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title XIII, § 1, 40 Stat. 231; Pub. L. 96–70, title III, § 3302(b), Sept. 27, 1979 , 93 Stat. 498; Pub. L. 107–295, title I, § 104(a), Nov. 25, 2002 , 116 Stat. 2085.)
cite as: 50 USC 195