Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 24 — Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Communication
§ 1204. Radiotelephone for exclusive use of master, person in charge, or pilot; frequency listening watch; portable radiotelephone equipment
Statutory text
The radiotelephone required by this chapter is for the exclusive use of the master or person in charge of the vessel, or the person designated by the master or person in charge to pilot or direct the movement of the vessel, who shall maintain a listening watch on the designated frequency. Nothing contained herein shall be interpreted as precluding the use of portable radiotelephone equipment to satisfy the requirements of this chapter.
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 § 5 · 85 Stat. 164
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 1204
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 5, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 5, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. The radiotelephone required by this Act is for the exclusive Use, restriction. use of the master or person in charge of the vessel, or the person designated by the master or person in charge to pilot or direct the movement of the vessel, who shall maintain a listening watch on the designated frequency. Nothing contained herein shall be interpreted as precluding the use of portable radiotelephone equipment to satisfy the requirements of this Act.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , or six months after the promulgation of regulations which would implement its provisions, whichever is later, see section 10 of Pub. L. 92–63, set out as a note under section 1201 of this title.