[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR2.20]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

 

PART 2_JURISDICTION--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart B_Jurisdictional Terms

 

Sec. 2.20  Territorial sea baseline.





    Territorial sea baseline means the line defining the shoreward 

extent of the territorial sea of the United States drawn according to 

the principles, as recognized by the United States, of the Convention on 

the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, 15 U.S.T. 1606, and the 

1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 21 I.L.M. 

1261. Normally, the territorial sea baseline is the mean low water line 

along the coast of the United States.

    Note to Sec. 2.20: Charts depicting the territorial sea baseline 

are available for examination in accordance with Sec. 1.10-5 of this 

chapter.