BTM Study Guide – Complete Exam Review, Key Concepts & Practice Questions
BTM - ANS ✔✔the boarding team member is a person to assist the boarding officer in the
execution of maritime law enforcement actions under the BO authority.
Authority - ANS ✔✔the government legal power to act.
5 fundamental sources of CG enforcement authority - ANS ✔✔1 Maritime law enforcement
(MLE)
2 Customs
3 Protection and Security of vessels, harbors, and waterfront facilities, including law
enforcement (LE) ashore
4 Assistance
5 CG investigation service (CGIS) special
14 USC 522 - authority for conducting a boarding - ANS ✔✔The Coast Guard may make
inquiries, examinations, inspections, searches, seizures, and arrests upon the high seas and
waters over which the United States has jurisdiction, for the prevention, detection, and
suppression of violations of laws of the United States.
for such perposes, commissioned, warrant, and petty officers may at any time go on board of
any vessel subject to the jurisdiction, or to the operation of any law, of the U.S, address inquiries
to those on board, examine the ships documents and papers, and examine, inspect, and search
the vessel and use all necessary force to compel compliance.
Jurisdiction - ANS ✔✔a government's power to exercise legal authority over its persons, vessels,
and territory.
Jurisdiction is comprised of three elements - ANS ✔✔1 substantive law
,2 vessel status/flag
3 location
substantive law - ANS ✔✔A law that prohibits certain action or requires affirmative conduct. CG
BO's rely on US federal law. Commonly cited laws relate to drug enforce, protected areas and
species, environmental/pollution, port/waterways/coastal security, vessel safety, general
criminal, and universal crimes.
4 Types of nationality - ANS ✔✔United States
Foreign flagged
Without nationality
Assimilated
4 types of vessels - ANS ✔✔- Commercial
- Recreational
- Government owned, non commercial
- Warships
Baseline - ANS ✔✔the low waterline along the coast and special closing lines across the mouths
of rivers, bays, inlets, other similar indentations.
internal waters - ANS ✔✔U.S. Waters shoreward of the baseline, including the U.S. side of the
Great Lakes.
U.S. Sea Border - ANS ✔✔along the Atlantic and pacific coasts, the sea border is 3 NM from the
low mean watermark. Texas and Florida in the gulf maintain a 9NM sea border. the remaining
gulf states recognize a 3NM border.
, territorial sea - ANS ✔✔the waters within the belt, 12NM wide, adjacent to the coast of the U.S.
and seaward bassline.
customs waters - ANS ✔✔generally those waters shoreward of a line drawn 12 NM sea ward
from the baseline.
Contiguous Zone - ANS ✔✔the waters within the belt adjacent to and seaward of the territorial
sea and extending to 24NM from the baseline.
Exclusive Economic Zone - ANS ✔✔the zone of waters beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea
and extending to 24NM from the baseline. there are exceptions to the inner boundary for the
enforcement of the Magnuson-stevens fishery conservation and management.
Foreign Boundaries - ANS ✔✔international law recognizes that each coastal state may establish
a territorial sea, a contiguous zone, and EEZ.
high seas - ANS ✔✔all parts of the ocean seaward of the EEZ. if the coastal state has not
proclaimed an EEZ, the high seas begin at the seaward edge of the territorial sea.
international waters - ANS ✔✔Waters seaward of the outer limit of the territorial sea of any
nation, but encompassing the high seas, EEZ, and contiguous zone.
where can i find the use of force policy - ANS ✔✔MLEM chapter 4
Use of force: guidelines- - ANS ✔✔only that force reasonably necessary under the
circumstances may be used. force shall not be used where assigned duties can be discharged
without it. excessive force may never be used; however, nothing in the application of the CG use
of force policy shall be construed as to require personnel to meet force with equal or lesser
force.
BTM - ANS ✔✔the boarding team member is a person to assist the boarding officer in the
execution of maritime law enforcement actions under the BO authority.
Authority - ANS ✔✔the government legal power to act.
5 fundamental sources of CG enforcement authority - ANS ✔✔1 Maritime law enforcement
(MLE)
2 Customs
3 Protection and Security of vessels, harbors, and waterfront facilities, including law
enforcement (LE) ashore
4 Assistance
5 CG investigation service (CGIS) special
14 USC 522 - authority for conducting a boarding - ANS ✔✔The Coast Guard may make
inquiries, examinations, inspections, searches, seizures, and arrests upon the high seas and
waters over which the United States has jurisdiction, for the prevention, detection, and
suppression of violations of laws of the United States.
for such perposes, commissioned, warrant, and petty officers may at any time go on board of
any vessel subject to the jurisdiction, or to the operation of any law, of the U.S, address inquiries
to those on board, examine the ships documents and papers, and examine, inspect, and search
the vessel and use all necessary force to compel compliance.
Jurisdiction - ANS ✔✔a government's power to exercise legal authority over its persons, vessels,
and territory.
Jurisdiction is comprised of three elements - ANS ✔✔1 substantive law
,2 vessel status/flag
3 location
substantive law - ANS ✔✔A law that prohibits certain action or requires affirmative conduct. CG
BO's rely on US federal law. Commonly cited laws relate to drug enforce, protected areas and
species, environmental/pollution, port/waterways/coastal security, vessel safety, general
criminal, and universal crimes.
4 Types of nationality - ANS ✔✔United States
Foreign flagged
Without nationality
Assimilated
4 types of vessels - ANS ✔✔- Commercial
- Recreational
- Government owned, non commercial
- Warships
Baseline - ANS ✔✔the low waterline along the coast and special closing lines across the mouths
of rivers, bays, inlets, other similar indentations.
internal waters - ANS ✔✔U.S. Waters shoreward of the baseline, including the U.S. side of the
Great Lakes.
U.S. Sea Border - ANS ✔✔along the Atlantic and pacific coasts, the sea border is 3 NM from the
low mean watermark. Texas and Florida in the gulf maintain a 9NM sea border. the remaining
gulf states recognize a 3NM border.
, territorial sea - ANS ✔✔the waters within the belt, 12NM wide, adjacent to the coast of the U.S.
and seaward bassline.
customs waters - ANS ✔✔generally those waters shoreward of a line drawn 12 NM sea ward
from the baseline.
Contiguous Zone - ANS ✔✔the waters within the belt adjacent to and seaward of the territorial
sea and extending to 24NM from the baseline.
Exclusive Economic Zone - ANS ✔✔the zone of waters beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea
and extending to 24NM from the baseline. there are exceptions to the inner boundary for the
enforcement of the Magnuson-stevens fishery conservation and management.
Foreign Boundaries - ANS ✔✔international law recognizes that each coastal state may establish
a territorial sea, a contiguous zone, and EEZ.
high seas - ANS ✔✔all parts of the ocean seaward of the EEZ. if the coastal state has not
proclaimed an EEZ, the high seas begin at the seaward edge of the territorial sea.
international waters - ANS ✔✔Waters seaward of the outer limit of the territorial sea of any
nation, but encompassing the high seas, EEZ, and contiguous zone.
where can i find the use of force policy - ANS ✔✔MLEM chapter 4
Use of force: guidelines- - ANS ✔✔only that force reasonably necessary under the
circumstances may be used. force shall not be used where assigned duties can be discharged
without it. excessive force may never be used; however, nothing in the application of the CG use
of force policy shall be construed as to require personnel to meet force with equal or lesser
force.
