An Act to eliminate requirements for disclosure of construction details on passenger vessels meeting prescribed safety standards
PL 91-154 (H.R.210), enacted 12/24/1969

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PUBLIC LAW 91-154-DEC. 24, 1969 
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SEC. 704. None of the funds in this Act shall be available to finance 
interdepartmental boards, commissions, councils, committees, or sim-
ilar groups under sec. 214 of the Independent Offices Appropriation 
Act, 1946 (31 U.S.C. 691) which do not have prior and specific congres-
sional approval of such method of financial support. 
SEC. 705. No part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
used to pay the salary of any Federal employee who is finally convicted 
in any Federal, State, or local court of competent jurisdiction, of 
inciting, promoting, or carrying on a riot resulting in material damage 
to property or injury to persons, found to be in violation of Federal, 
State, or local laws designed to protect persons or property in the com-
munity concerned. 
SEC. 706. No part of the funds appropriated under this Act shall be 
used to provide a loan, guarantee of a loan, a grant, the salary of, or 
any remuneration whatever to any individual applying for admission, 
attending, employed by, teaching at or doing research at an institution 
of higher education who has engaged in conduct on or after August 1, 
]969, which involves the use of (or the assistance to others in the use 
of) force or the threat of force or the seizure of property under the con-
trol of an institution of higher education, to require or prevent the 
availability of certain curriculum, or to prevent the faculty, adminis-
trative officials or students in such institution from engaging in their 
duties or pursuing their studies at such institution: Provided^ That 
such limitation upon the use of money appropriated in this Act shall 
not apply to a particular individual until the appropriate institution 
of higher education at which such conduct occurred shall have had an 
opportunity to initiate or has completed such proceedings as it deems 
appropriate but whicli are not dilatory in order to determine whether 
the provisions of this limitation upon the use of appropriated funds 
shall apply: Provided further. That such institution shall certify to 
the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare at quarterly or 
semester intervals that it is in compliance with this provision. 
This Act may be cited as the "Departments of State, Justice, and 
Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 
1970". 
Approved December 24, 1969. 
Interdepart-
mental groups. 
59 Stat. 134. 
Payments to 
convicted 
rioters, pro-
hibition. 
Funds for 
campus dis-
rupters, pro-
hibition. 
Compliance, 
certification. 
Short title. 
Public Law 91-154 
A N A C T 
December 24,1969 
To eliminate requirements for disclosure of construction details on passenger 
[H. R. 210] 
vessels meeting prescribed safety standards, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houste of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That section 4400 of 
the Revised Statutes, as amended (46 U.S.C. 362), is amended— 
(1) by inserting in the second sentence of subsection (b) 
between the words "information*' and "as" the following: ", and 
shall specify the registry of any vessel named,", and 
(2) by inserting between the second and third sentences of sub-
section (b) thereof the following new sentence: "The passenger 
notification and promotional or advertising literature inclusions 
required by this subsection, except the inclusion of the country of 
registry of the vessel, do not apply to voyages by vessels meeting 
the safety standards prescribed m subsection (c) of this section.". 
Approved December 24, 1969. 
Passenger 
vessels. 
Construction de-
tail disclosure, 
elimination.