Whenever the President by proclamation or Executive order declares a national emergency to exist by reason of actual or threatened war, insurrection, or invasion, or disturbance or threatened disturbance of the international relations of the United States, or whenever the Attorney General determines that an actual or anticipated mass migration of aliens en route to, or arriving off the coast of, the United States presents urgent circumstances requiring an immediate Federal response, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may make, subject to the approval of the President, rules and regulations governing the anchorage and movement of any vessel, foreign or domestic, in the territorial waters of the United States, may inspect such vessel at any time, place guards thereon, and, if necessary in his opinion in order to secure such vessels from damage or injury, or to prevent damage or injury to any harbor or waters of the United States, or to secure the observance of the rights and obligations of the United States, may take, by and with the consent of the President, for such purposes, full possession and control of such vessel and remove therefrom the officers and crew thereof and all other persons not specially authorized by him to go or remain on board thereof.
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Whenever the President by proclamation or Executive order declares a national emergency to exist by reason of actual or threatened war, insurrection, or invasion, or disturbance or threatened disturbance of the international relations of the United States, or whenever the Attorney General determines that an actual or anticipated mass migration of aliens en route to, or arriving off the coast of, the United States presents urgent circumstances requiring an immediate Federal response, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may make, subject to the approval of the President, rules and regulations governing the anchorage and movement of any vessel, foreign or domestic, in the territorial waters of the United States, may inspect such vessel at any time, place guards thereon, and, if necessary in his opinion in order to secure such vessels from damage or injury, or to prevent damage or injury to any harbor or waters of the United States, or to secure the observance of the rights and obligations of the United States, may take, by and with the consent of the President, for such purposes, full possession and control of such vessel and remove therefrom the officers and crew thereof and all other persons not specially authorized by him to go or remain on board thereof.
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Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
§ 70051. Regulation of anchorage and movement
of vessels during national emergency
Whenever the President by proclamation or
Executive order declares a national emergency
to exist by reason of actual or threatened war,
insurrection, or invasion, or disturbance or
threatened disturbance of the international re-
lations of the United States, or whenever the
Attorney General determines that an actual or
anticipated mass migration of aliens en route
to, or arriving off the coast of, the United States
presents urgent circumstances requiring an im-
mediate Federal response, the Secretary of the
department in which the Coast Guard is oper-
ating may make, subject to the approval of the
President, rules and regulations governing the
anchorage and movement of any vessel, foreign
or domestic, in the territorial waters of the
United States, may inspect such vessel at any
time, place guards thereon, and, if necessary in
his opinion in order to secure such vessels from
damage or injury, or to prevent damage or in-
jury to any harbor or waters of the United
States, or to secure the observance of the rights
and obligations of the United States, may take,
by and with the consent of the President, for
such purposes, full possession and control of
such vessel and remove therefrom the officers
and crew thereof and all other persons not spe-
cially authorized by him to go or remain on
board thereof.
Whenever the President finds that the secu-
rity of the United States is endangered by rea-
son of actual or threatened war, or invasion, or
insurrection, or subversive activity, or of dis-
turbances or threatened disturbances of the
international relations of the United States, the
President is authorized to institute such meas-
ures and issue such rules and regul