Coast Guard Act

Coast Guard Act
Great Seal of the United States
Other short titlesAn Act to create the Coast Guard by combining therein the existing Life-Saving Service and Revenue-Cutter Service.
Enacted bythe 63rd United States Congress
EffectiveJanuary 28, 1915
Citations
Public lawPub. L. 63–239
Statutes at Large38 Stat. 800
Codification
Titles amended14 U.S.C.: Coast Guard
U.S.C. sections created14 U.S.C. ch. 1 § 1 et seq.
Legislative history
  • Introduced in the Senate as S. 2337 by Charles E. Townsend (R-MI) on May 26, 1913
  • Passed the Senate on March 12, 1914 (Passed)
  • Passed the House on January 20, 1915 (210-79)
  • Signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on January 28, 1915

The Coast Guard Act of 1915 was passed by Congress on January 20, 1915, and signed into law by then-American president Woodrow Wilson on the twenty-eighth day of the same month. The act created the United States Coast Guard[1] as a new service outwardly modeled on the structure of the U.S. Navy and under the command of the Department of Treasury.

Its men wore uniforms and had the responsibility of protecting American coastal cities and waters from hostile attack, enforcing customs duties and performing search and rescue missions at sea and in coastal environments. The U.S. Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces[2] authorized to stop, search and arrest suspected smugglers and other unlawful intruders into American waters.[3]

Mergers

The Coast Guard was created from the merged United States Life Saving Service and the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which had been established in 1790 to prevent smuggling until the reestablishment of the Navy in 1798.[4]

Although placed under the U.S. Treasury Department the Coast Guard was temporarily transferred to the Navy Department during World War I and again during World War II. In 1939, the Coast Guard also integrated and incorporated the United States Lighthouse Service and, in 1942, the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. In 1967, the Coast Guard was placed under the United States Department of Transportation.

Further Amendment

Since 2003, the U.S. Coast Guard has fallen under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security and as before in times of war and emergency when declared by the president it reverts to the navy's control.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Coast Guard History". USCG. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  2. ^ "14 USC 1 - Sec. 1. Establishment of Coast Guard". us-code.vlex.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  3. ^ "Coast Guard Act Law & Legal Definition". definitions.uslegal.com. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  4. ^ "coast guard". education.yahoo.com. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  5. ^ "14 USC § 1 - Establishment of Coast Guard". www.law.cornell.edu. Retrieved 1 December 2012.

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