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title: "33 U.S.C. § 1483"
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title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 1483 - Foreign government ships; immunity

## Text

No measures may be taken under authority of this chapter against any warship or other ship owned or operated by a country and used, for the time being, only on Government noncommercial service.

(Pub. L. 93–248, § 14, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 10.)