Volume 65
Public Law 82–52
To expand the authority of the Coast Guard to establish, maintain, and operate aids to navigation to include the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
Approved June 22, 1951
Statutory text
AN ACT
To expand the authority of the Coast Guard to establish, maintain, and operate aids to navigation to include the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the last sentence of section 81 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by
inserting after the word “possessions,” the phrase “the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,”, so that the sentence will read as follows: “Such aids to navigation other than loran stations shall be established and operated only within the United States, its Territories and possessions, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and beyond the territorial jurisdiction of the United States at places where naval or military bases of the United States are or may be located, and at other places where such aids to navigation have been established prior to June 26, 1948.”
Approved June 22, 1951.