[PUBLIC LAW 85-78TH CONGRESS] To amend section 353 [H. R. 2750] AN ACT (b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 353 (b) of the Communications Act of 1934 (50 Stat. 193, 55 Stat. 579; U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 47, sec. 353 (b)), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "(b) A cargo ship, required by this part to be fitted with a radio installation, which is fitted with an autoalarm in accordance with this title, shall, for safety purposes, carry at least one qualified operator who shall have had at least six months' previous service in the aggregate as a qualified operator in a station on board a ship or ships of the United States, but during the emergency proclaimed by the President on September 8, 1939, to exist, but not after the termination of such emergency or such earlier date as Congress by concurrent resolution may designate, the aforesaid requirement of six months' previous service may be suspended or modified by regulation or order of the Commission for successive periods of not more than six months' duration." Approved June 22, 1943. (134) [PUBLIC LAW 97-78TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 174-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 2612]. AN ACT To extend the effective date of the Act of December 17, 1941, relating to additional safeguards to the radio communications service of ships of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to provide additional safeguards to the radio communications service of ships of the United States in the interest of the national defense, and for other purposes", approved December 17, 1941 (55 Stat. 808; 47 U. S. C. 353 note), is hereby amended by striking out the words "national emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941, to exist but not after July 1, 1943, or the date upon which the President proclaims the existing national defense emergency terminated, whichever occurs first," and substituting therefor the following: "period until July 1, 1945, or until such earlier time as the Congress by concurrent resolution may designate,". |