33 U.S.C. § 151 : US Code - Section 151: High seas and inland waters demarcation lines

Search 33 U.S.C. § 151 : US Code - Section 151: High seas and inland waters demarcation lines

(a) Establishment and purpose
The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is
operating shall establish appropriate identifiable demarcation
lines dividing the high seas from harbors, rivers, and other inland
waters of the United States, for the purpose of determining the
applicability of special navigational rules in lieu of the
International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.
(b) Applicability of other statutes; limitation; position
The Secretary shall also establish appropriate identifiable lines
dividing inland waters of the United States from the high seas for
the purpose of determining the applicability of each statute that
refers to this section or this section, as amended. These lines may
not be located more than twelve nautical miles seaward of the base
line from which the territorial sea is measured. These lines may
differ in position for the purposes of different statutes.
(c) "United States" defined
For the purposes of this section, the term "United States"
includes the several States of the United States, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa,
the United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and
any other Commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United
States.