§ 2.20 Territorial sea baseline.

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Title 33 CFR: Navigation and Navigable Waters › Chapter I: COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY › Part 2: JURISDICTION › Subpart B: Jurisdictional Terms › § 2.20: § 2.20 Territorial sea baseline.

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Territorial sea baseline

means the line defining the shoreward extent of the territorial sea of the United States drawn according to the principles, as recognized by the United States, of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, 15 U.S.T. 1606, and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 21 I.L.M. 1261. Normally, the territorial sea baseline is the mean low water line along the coast of the United States.

Note to § 2.20:

Charts depicting the territorial sea baseline are available for examination in accordance with § 1.10-5 of this chapter.

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