Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 24 — Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Communication
§ 1201. Statement of purpose
Statutory text
It is the purpose of this chapter to provide a positive means whereby the operators of approaching vessels can communicate their intentions to one another through voice radio, located convenient to the operator’s navigation station. To effectively accomplish this, there is need for a specific frequency or frequencies dedicated to the exchange of navigational information, on navigable waters of the United States.
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.
Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act
Pub. L. 92–63 § 2 · 85 Stat. 164
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 1201
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 2, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 164.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 2, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 164.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. It is the purpose of this Act to provide a positive means whereby the operators of approaching vessels can communicate their intentions to one another through voice radio, located convenient to the operator’s navigation station. To effectively accomplish this, there is need for a specific frequency or frequencies dedicated to the exchange of navigational information, on navigable waters of the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Pub. L. 92–63, § 1, , 85 Stat. 164, provided: “That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act’.”
Effective Date
Pub. L. 92–63, § 10, , 85 Stat. 165, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] shall become effective , or six months after the promulgation of regulations which would implement its provisions, whichever is later.”
See 47 CFR 83.701 et seq.