§726. International agreement as to derelicts

The President of the United States is authorized to make with the several Governments interested in the navigation of the North Atlantic Ocean, an international agreement providing for the reporting, marking, and removal of dangerous wrecks, derelicts, and other menaces to navigation in the North Atlantic Ocean outside the coast waters of the respective countries bordering thereon.

(Oct. 31, 1893, No. 13, 28 Stat. 13.)

Cross References

International agreements as to ice patrol and derelict destruction, see section 738 of this Appendix.