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legal/us/code/title-47/chapter-5/section-353a.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "47 U.S.C. § 353a"
+description: "Operators and watches on radiotelephone equipped ships"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 47
+title_name: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
+chapter_number: "5"
+chapter_name: "WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION"
+section: "353a"
+citation: "47 U.S.C. § 353a"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc47@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t47/s353a"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 47 U.S.C. § 353a - Operators and watches on radiotelephone equipped ships
+
+## Text
+
+(a) Each cargo ship which in accordance with this part is equipped with a radiotelephone station shall, for safety purposes, carry at least one operator who may be the master, an officer, or a member of the crew.
+
+(b) Each cargo ship of the United States which in accordance with this part is equipped with a radiotelephone station shall, while being navigated in the open sea outside of a harbor or port, maintain continuous watch whenever the station is not being used for authorized traffic.
+
+(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 354, as added Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 729, § 2(b), 68 Stat. 706; amended Pub. L. 89–121, § 5, Aug. 13, 1965, 79 Stat. 514.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Amendments1965—Pub. L. 89–121 substituted “radiotelephone station” for “radiotelephone installation” in two places, and “one operator who may be the master, an officer, or a member of the crew” for “one qualified operator who may be a member of the crew holding only a certificate for radio telephony”, inserted “in the open sea” before “outside of a harbor”, and required a continuous watch whenever the station is not being used for authorized traffic.