Volume 67
Public Law 83–232
To amend the rules for the prevention of collisions on certain inland waters of the United States and on the western rivers.
Approved August 8, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the rules for the prevention of collisions on certain inland waters of the United States and on the western rivers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That so much of the Act entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States”, approved June 7, 1897, as amended (33 U. S. C. 154), as reads “That
the following regulations for preventing collisions shall be followed by all vessels upon the harbors, rivers, and other inland waters of the United States, except the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal, and the waters of the Mississippi River between its source and the Huey P. Long Bridge and all of its tributaries emptying thereinto and their tributaries, and that part of the Atchafalaya River above its junction with the Plaquemine-Morgan City alternate waterway, and the waters of the Mobile River above Choctaw Point and all of its tributaries, and the Red River of the North; and are hereby declared special rules duly made by local authority;” is amended to read as follows: “That the following regulations for preventing collisions shall be followed by all vessels upon the harbors, rivers, and other inland waters of the United States except the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east, as Montreal, and the waters of the Mississippi River between its source and the Huey P. Long Bridge and all of its tributaries emptying thereinto and their tributaries, and that part of the Atchafalaya River above its junction with the Plaquemine-Morgan City alternate waterway, and the Red River of the North, and are hereby declared special rules duly made by local authority:”.
Sec. 2.
Section 4233 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (33 U. S. C. 301), is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 4233.
The following regulations for preventing collisions shall be followed by all vessels upon the waters of the Mississippi River between its source and the Huey P. Long Bridge and all of the tributaries emptying thereinto and their tributaries, and that part of the Atchafalaya River above its junction with the Plaquemine-Morgan City alternate waterway, and the Red River of the North; and are declared special rules duly made by local authority.”
Approved August 8, 1953.