An Act to provide for the revocation or denial of merchant marine documents to persons involved in certain narcotics violations
PL 83-500 (H.R.8538), enacted 07/15/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 500--JULY 15, 1954 
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consumption during the two-year period which begins on the day fol-
lowing the date of the enactment of this Act, no duty shall be imposed 
upon bauxite, crude, not refined or otherwise advanced in condition 
in any manner, or upon calcined bauxite when imported for use in 
the manufacture of firebrick or other refractories under such regula-
tions as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed 
to admit free of duty twenty-four bells imported for addition to the 
carillon possessed by The Citadel, an educational institution situated 
in- Charleston, South Carolina. 
Approved July 15, 1954. 
July 15,1954 
[H. R. 8538] 
Public Law 500 
CHAPTER 512 
AN ACT 
To provide for the revocation or denial ot merchant marine documents to 
persons involved in certain narcotics violations. 
Narcotic users. 
Seaman's docu-
ment. 
58 Stat. 721. 
53 Stat. 387. 
2 6 use 3238. 
Denial. 
Revocation. 
60 Stat. 237. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Bepr-esentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That when used in 
this Act— 
(a) The term "narcotic drug" shall have the meaning ascribed to 
that term by paragraph (a) of the first section of the Narcotic Drugs 
Import and Export Act, as amended (21 U. S. C , sec. 171 (a)), and 
also shall include marihuana as defined in section 3238 (b) of the 
Internal Revenue Code. 
(b) The term "Secretary" means the head of the department in 
which the Coast Guard is operating. 
(c) The term "seaman's document" means any document author-
ized by law or regulation to be issued to a merchant mariner by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary may— 
(a) deny a seaman's document to— 
(1) any person who, within ten years prior to the date of 
the application therefor, has been convicted in a court of 
record of a violation of the narcotic drug laws of the United 
States, the District of Columbia, or any State or Territory of 
the United States, which conviction has become final; or 
(2) any person who, unless he furnishes satisfactory evi-
dence that he is cured, has ever been a user of or addicted to 
the use of a narcotic drug; and 
(b) take action, based on a hearing before a Coast Guard 
examiner, under hearing procedures prescr.ibed by the Adminis-
trative Procedure Act, as amended (U. S. C, title 5, sees. 1001-
1011), to revoke the seaman's document of— 
(1) any person who, subsequent to the effective date of 
this Act and within ten years prior to the institution of the 
action, has been convicted in a court of record of a violatjion 
of the narcotic drug laws of the United States, the District of 
Columbia, or any State or Territory of the United States, 
the revocation to be subject to the conviction's becoming 
final; or 
(2) any person who, unless he furnishes satisfactory evi-
dence that he is cured, has been, subsequent to the effective 
date of this Act, a user of or addicted to the use of a narcotic 
drug. 
Approved July 15, 1954. 
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