BTM Coast Guard Study Guide Exam 2024 (100% Correct)

BTM Coast Guard Study Guide Exam 2024 (100% Correct) Define Authority - CORRECT ANSWER-Authority is the government's legal power to act. (Pgs 2-3 MLEM) What is 14 USC 522? - CORRECT ANSWER-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 purposes 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 United States, 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 comply compliance. Define Jurisdiction - CORRECT ANSWER-Jurisdiction is the governments power to exercise legal authority over its persons, vessels, and territory. (Pg 2-9 MLEM)