Drug Trafficking Vessel Interdiction Act
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Long title | An Act to amend titles 46 and 18, United States Code, with respect to the operation of submersible vessels and semi-submersible vessels without nationality. |
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Acronyms (colloquial) | DTVIA |
Nicknames | Drug Trafficking Vessel Interdiction Act of 2008 |
Enacted by | the 110th United States Congress |
Effective | October 13, 2008 |
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Public law | 110-407 |
Statutes at Large | 122 Stat. 4296 |
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U.S.C. sections amended | |
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The Drug Trafficking Vessel Interdiction Act of 2008, Pub.L. 110–407 (text) (pdf), 122 Stat. 4296, enacted October 23, 2008, was an act of the United States Congress outlawing operation of or travel in unregistered submersibles and semi-submersibles in international waters with the intent to evade detection.
The act was enacted to combat the use of illicit self-propelled semi-submersible and submersible vessels in international drug trafficking (see narco-submarine).[1] Notably, the act provides for extraterritorial jurisdiction.[1] The law extended earlier legislation such as the Marijuana on the High Seas Act (MHSA) and Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA).[1]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c Allyson Bennett, That Sinking Feeling: Stateless Ships, Universal Jurisdiction, and the Drug Trafficking Vessel Interdiction Act, Yale Journal of International Law, Volume 37, Issue 2 (2012).
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Categories:
- Acts of the 110th United States Congress
- United States federal admiralty and maritime legislation
- United States federal criminal legislation
- United States federal defense and national security legislation
- United States federal controlled substances legislation