Title 14 — Coast Guard
Chapter 5 — Functions and Powers
§ 546. Deposit of damage payments
Statutory text
Whenever an aid to navigation or other property belonging to the Coast Guard is damaged or destroyed by a private person, and such private person or his agent shall pay to the satisfaction of the proper official of the Coast Guard for the cost of repair or replacement of such property, the Commandant may accept and deposit such payments, through proper officers of the Fiscal Service, Treasury Department, in special deposit accounts in the Treasury, for payment therefrom to the person or persons repairing or replacing the damaged property and refundment of amounts collected in excess of the cost of the repairs or replacements concerned. In the event that repair or replacement of the damaged property is effected by the Coast Guard, the appropriations bearing the cost thereof and current at the time collection is made shall be reimbursed from the special deposit account.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Title 14, United States Code, section —
Pub. L. 81–393 · 63 Stat. 495
Enacted · 14 U.S.C. § 546
Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 547, § 642
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 547, § 642Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018
Pub. L. 115–282 title I § 105(b) · 132 Stat. 4192
Changed · 14 U.S.C. § 546
Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 642 of this title as this section
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 642 of this title as this section.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Redesignations and Transfers.— (1) Requirement.— The sections of title 14, United States Code, identified in the table provided in paragraph (2) are amended— (A) by redesignating the sections as described in the table; and (B) by transferring the sections, as necessary, so that the sections appear after the table of sections for chapter 5 of such title (as added by subsection (a)), in the order in which the sections are presented in the table. (2) Table.— The table referred to in paragraph (1) is the following: Title 14 section number before redesignationSection heading (provided for identification purposes only-not amended)Title 14 section number after redesignation 92Secretary; general powers501 631Delegation of powers by the Secretary502 633Regulations503 93Commandant; general powers504 632Functions and powers vested in the Commandant505 520Prospective payment of funds necessary to provide medical care506 153Appointment of judges507 88Saving life and property521 89Law enforcement522 99Enforcement authority523 100Enforcement of coastwise trade laws524 95Special agents of the Coast Guard Investigative Service law enforcement authority525 637Stopping vessels; indemnity for firing at or into vessel526 91Safety of naval vessels527 104Protecting against unmanned aircraft528 81Aids to navigation authorized541 83Unauthorized aids to maritime navigation; penalty542 84Interference with aids to navigation; penalty543 85Aids to maritime navigation; penalty544 86Marking of obstructions545 642Deposit of damage payments546 643Rewards for apprehension of persons interfering with aids to navigation547 87Icebreaking in polar regions561 101Appeals and waivers562 103Notification of certain determinations563
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 33, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 721a (Aug. 16, 1937, ch. 665, § 2, 50 Stat. 667).
Changes were made in phraseology. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 642 of this title as this section.
Credits
1949–2018 · 2 acts
- 1949Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 547, § 642
- 2018renumbered § 546, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 105(b), , 132 Stat. 4200.
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(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 547, § 642; renumbered § 546, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 105(b), , 132 Stat. 4200.)