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- From: micheal@sdf.lonestar.org (T. Micheal Young)
- Subject: Re: Coast Guard Boating Tax, NOT!
- Message-ID: <BzxF47.H1o@sdf.lonestar.org>
- Organization: Best lil' ol' Pubnix in Texas
- References: <1992Dec18.021744.2711@tfs.com> <1907@niktow.canisius.edu> <CARL.92Dec24152359@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:28:55 GMT
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- In article <CARL.92Dec24152359@atlantis.Cayman.COM> carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl) writes:
- >
- >So, unless you leave US Coastal Waters, they (the Coast Guard) should
- >not be able to board you unless they have reasonable probable cause
- >(e.g. they see you picking up packages that have been dropped from an
- >airplance) that you have drugs/whatever aboard.
- >
- >-Carl-
- >
-
- We only wish this were true. If your vessel is registered as a United States
- vessel, the Coast Guard has the right to search and sieze it whenever and
- wherever they "feel" like it. If your vessel flys a flag other than the US
- flag, then the CG does not have the right to search it outside of US territorial
- waters. Once we are afloat, we are not protected by civil, terestial law. I am stating
- all of this from memory. I'll try to make time to find and post the
- references.
- --
-
-
- Fair winds and far places.....
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-