Volume 79
Public Law 89–191
To clarify the responsibility for marking of obstructions in navigable waters.
Approved September 17, 1965
Statutory text
AN ACT
To clarify the responsibility for marking of obstructions in navigable waters.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 86 of title 14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
Ҥ 86. Marking of obstructions
“The Secretary may mark for the protection of navigation any sunken vessel or other obstruction existing on any navigable waters of the United States in such manner and for so long as, in his judgment, the needs of maritime navigation require. The owner of such an obstruction shall be liable to the United States for the cost of such marking until such time as the obstruction is removed or its abandonment legally established or until such earlier time as the Secretary may determine. All moneys received by the United States from the owners of obstructions, in accordance with this section, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. This section shall not be construed so as to relieve the owner of any such obstruction from the duty and responsibility suitably to mark the same and remove it as required by law.”
Approved September 17, 1965.