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Timestamp: 2019-07-16 08:34:03
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 357', '§357', '§359', '§357', '§10', '§359', '§2', '§9']

[USC10] 47 USC 357: Safety information
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47 USC 357: Safety information Text contains those laws in effect on July 15, 2019
§357. Safety information
No charge shall be made by any ship or station in the mobile service of the United States for the transmission, receipt, or relay of the information designated in subsection (a) originating on a ship of the United States or of a foreign country.
The transmission by any ship of the United States, made in compliance with subsection (a), to any station which imposes a charge for the reception, relay, or forwarding of the required information, shall be free of cost to the ship concerned and any communication charges incurred by the ship for transmission, relay, or forwarding of the information may be certified to the Commission for reimbursement out of moneys appropriated to the Commission for that purpose.
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, §359, formerly §357, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, §10(b), 50 Stat. 195 ; renumbered §359, Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 729, §2(a)(1), 68 Stat. 706 ; amended Pub. L. 89–121, §9, Aug. 13, 1965, 79 Stat. 516 .)
1965-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 89–121 directed the master of every ship of the United States equipped with radio transmitting apparatus which encounters subfreezing air temperatures associated with gale force winds causing severe ice accretion on superstructures, or winds of force 10 or above on the Beaufort scale for which no storm warning has been received to transmit the pertinent information relating thereto.