---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 70053"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "70053"
heading: "Enforcement provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/70053"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Security and Drug Enforcement"
  - "Chapter 700 — Ports and Waterways Safety"
  - "Subchapter VI — Regulation of Vessels in Territorial Waters of United States"
---

# §70053. Enforcement provisions


The President may employ such departments, agencies, officers, or instrumentalities of the [United States](/usc/46/70054.md?p=1) as he may deem necessary to carry out this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–282, title IV, § 407(d)(3), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4267.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section, as added by Pub. L. 115–282, is based on acts June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title II, § 4, 40 Stat. 220; Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 656, § 2, 64 Stat. 428; Pub. L. 115–282, title IV, § 407(d)(1), (2), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4267, which was formerly classified to section 194 of Title 50, War and National Defense, before being transferred to this chapter and renumbered as this section.