---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 358"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "358"
heading: "Master’s control over operations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/358"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication"
  - "Subchapter III — Special Provisions Relating to Radio"
  - "Part II — Radio Equipment and Radio Operators On Board Ship"
---

# §358. Master’s control over operations


The radio installation, the [operators](/usc/47/153.md?p=38-A), the regulation of their watches, the transmission and receipt of messages, and the radio service of the [ship](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A) except as they may be regulated by law or international agreement, or by rules and regulations made in pursuance thereof, shall in the case of a [ship](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A) of the [United States](/usc/47/153.md?p=58) be under the supreme control of the master.


## Source credit

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 360, formerly § 358, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 195; renumbered § 360, ch. 729, § 2(a)(1), Aug. 13, 1954, 68 Stat. 706.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective May 20, 1937, see section 16 of act May 20, 1937, set out as a note under section 351 of this title.