CODIFICATION OF SECTIONS RELATING TO ACQUISITION, CHARTER, AND REQUISITION OF VESSELS.

SEC. 3504. CODIFICATION OF SECTIONS RELATING TO ACQUISITION, CHARTER, AND REQUISITION OF VESSELS. (a) Emergency Foreign Vessel Acquisition; Purchase or Requisition of Vessels Lying Idle in United States Waters.—The first section of the Act of August 9, 1954 (ch. 659; 50 U.S.C. 196)— (1) is redesignated as section 56309 of title 46, United States Code, and transferred to appear at the end of chapter 563 of such title, as otherwise amended by this title; and (2) is amended— (A) by striking “That during” and inserting the following: “SEC. 56309. Emergency foreign vessel acquisition; purchase or requisition of vessels lying idle in United States waters “During” ; (B) by striking “section 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended” each place it appears and inserting “this chapter”; and (C) by striking “the second paragraph of subsection (d) of such section 902, as amended” and inserting “section 56305”. (b) Voluntary Purchase or Charter Agreements.—Section 2 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 197)— (1) is redesignated as section 56310 of title 46, United States Code, and transferred to appear after section 56309 of such title (as amended by subsection (a)); and (2) is amended— (A) by striking so much as proceeds “During” and inserting the following: “SEC. 56310. Voluntary purchase or charter agreements” ; and (B) by striking “section 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936,” and inserting “this chapter”. (c) Requisitioned Vessels.—Section 3 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 198)— (1) is redesignated as section 56311 of title 46, United States Code, and transferred to appear after section 56310 of such title (as amended by subsections (a) and (b)); (2) is amended by striking so much as precedes subsection (a) and inserting the following: “SEC. 56311. Requisitioned vessels” ; and (3) is amended— (A) except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C), by striking “this Act” each place it appears and inserting “section 56309 or 56310, as applicable”; (B) in subsection (c)— (i) in the first sentence, by striking “this Act” and inserting “section 56309 or 56310, as applicable,”; and (ii) by striking “The second paragraph of section 9 of the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended,” and inserting “Section 57109”; and (C) in subsection (d)— (i) in the first sentence by striking “provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes” and inserting “section 6101 of title 41”; (ii) in the second sentence— (I) by striking “this Act” and inserting “section 56309 or 56310, as applicable,”; and (II) by striking “said section 3709” and inserting “section 6101 of title 41”; (iii) by striking “title VII of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936” and inserting “chapter 575”; and (iv) by striking subsection (f). (d) Documented Defined.—Chapter 563 of title 46, United States Code, as amended by this section, is further amended by adding at the end the following: “SEC. 56312. [46 U.S.C. 56312] Documented defined “In sections 56309 through 56311, the term ‘documented’ means, with respect to a vessel, that a certificate of documentation has been issued for the vessel under chapter 121.” . (e) [46 U.S.C. 56301] Clerical Amendment.—The analysis for chapter 563 of title 46, United States Code, as otherwise amended by this title, is further amended by adding at the end the following:“56309. Emergency foreign vessel acquisition; purchase or requisition of vessels lying idle in United States waters“56310. Voluntary purchase or charter agreements“56311. Requisitioned vessels“56312. Documented defined”. (f) [46 U.S.C. 56309 note] References.—Any reference in a law, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to a section that is redesignated and transferred by this section is deemed to refer to such section as so redesignated and transferred.