---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 70054"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "70054"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/70054"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Security and Drug Enforcement"
  - "Chapter 700 — Ports and Waterways Safety"
  - "Subchapter VI — Regulation of Vessels in Territorial Waters of United States"
---

# §70054. Definitions


In this subchapter:

- (1) **United states.—** The term “United States” includes all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
- (2) **Territorial waters.—** The term “territorial waters of the United States” includes all waters of the territorial sea of the [United States](#1) as described in Presidential Proclamation 5928 of December 27, 1988.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–282, title IV, § 407(a), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4266.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Presidential Proclamation Number 5928, referred to in par. (2), is Proc. No. 5928, Dec. 27, 1988, 54 F.R. 777, which is set out as a note under section 1331 of Title 43, Public Lands.