---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 382"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "382"
heading: "Vessels excepted from radiotelephone requirement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/382"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication"
  - "Subchapter III — Special Provisions Relating to Radio"
  - "Part III — Radio Installations on Vessels Carrying Passengers for Hire"
---

# §382. Vessels excepted from radiotelephone requirement


The provisions of this part shall not apply to—

- (1) [vessels](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A) which are equipped with a radio installation in accordance with the provisions of part II of this subchapter, or in accordance with the radio requirements of the [Safety Convention](/usc/47/153.md?p=45); and
- (2) [vessels](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A) of the [United States](/usc/47/153.md?p=58) belonging to and operated by the Government, and
- (3) [vessels](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A) navigating on the Great Lakes.

## Source credit

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 382, as added Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 973, § 1, 70 Stat. 1048; amended Pub. L. 103–414, title III, § 303(a)(20)(B), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4295; Pub. L. 104–104, title IV, § 403(h)(2), Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 131.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Part II of this subchapter, referred to in par. (1), is classified to section 351 et seq. of this title.

### Amendments

1996—Par. (2). Pub. L. 104–104 struck out “except a vessel of the United States Maritime Administration, the Inland and Coastwise Waterways Service, or the Panama Canal Company,” after “the Government,”.

1994—Pub. L. 103–414 inserted section catchline.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Mar. 1, 1957, see section 4 of act Aug. 6, 1956, set out as a note under section 381 of this title.