---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3778"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3778"
heading: "Board of local inspectors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3778"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Panama Canal"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Regulations"
  - "Part 4 — Claims for Injuries to Persons or Property"
  - "Subpart ii — vessel damage"
---

# §3778. Board of local inspectors

- (a) The President shall provide for the establishment of a Board of Local Inspectors of the Panama Canal [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) which shall perform, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the President—
  - (1) the investigations required by [section 3777 of this title](/usc/22/3777.md); and
  - (2) such other duties with respect to marine matters as may be assigned by the President.
- (b) In conducting any investigation pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) of this section, the Board of Local Inspectors established pursuant to such subsection may summon witnesses, administer oaths, and require the production of books and papers necessary for such investigation.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1418, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 487.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

Functions vested in President by this section delegated to Secretary of Defense, see section 1–303 of Ex. Ord. No. 12215, May 27, 1980, 45 F.R. 36044, set out as a note under section 3601 of this title.