[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: 33CFR2.32]



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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. 2.32  High seas.



    (a) For purposes of special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of 

the United States as defined in 18 U.S.C. 7, high seas means all waters 

seaward of the territorial sea baseline.

    (b) For the purposes of section 2 of the Act of February 19, 1895, 

as amended (33 U.S.C. 151) and the Inland Navigational Rules Act of 1980 

(33 U.S.C. Chapter 34), high seas means the waters seaward of any lines 

established under these statutes, including the lines described in part 

80 of this chapter and 46 CFR part 7.

    (c) For the purposes of 14 U.S.C. 89(a), and 33 U.S.C. 1471 et. 

seq., high seas includes the exclusive economic zones of the United 

States and other nations, as well as those waters that are seaward of 

territorial seas of the United States and other nations.

    (d) Under customary international law as reflected in the 1982 

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and without prejudice to 

high seas freedoms that may be exercised within exclusive economic zones 

pursuant to article 58 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of 

the Sea, and unless the context clearly requires otherwise (e.g., The 

International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in 

Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969, including annexes thereto), 

high seas means all waters that are not the exclusive economic zone (as 

defined in Sec. 2.30), territorial sea (as defined in Sec. 2.22), or 

internal waters of the United States or any other nation.