Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 24 — Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Communication
§ 1205. Radiotelephone capability; maintenance; restoration; consequences of loss: navigation of vessel
Statutory text
Whenever radiotelephone capability is required by this chapter, a vessel’s radiotelephone equipment shall be maintained in effective operating condition. If the radiotelephone equipment carried aboard a vessel ceases to operate, the master shall exercise due diligence to restore it or cause it to be restored to effective operating condition at the earliest practicable time. The failure of a vessel’s radiotelephone equipment shall not, in itself, constitute a violation of this chapter, nor shall it obligate the master of any vessel to moor or anchor his vessel; however, the loss of radiotelephone capability shall be given consideration in the navigation of the vessel.
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 § 6 · 85 Stat. 164
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 1205
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 6, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 6, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. Whenever radiotelephone capability is required by this Act, Equipment, maintenance. a vessel’s radiotelephone equipment shall be maintained in effective operating condition. If the radiotelephone equipment carried aboard a vessel ceases to operate, the master shall exercise due diligence to restore it or cause it to be restored to effective operating condition at the earliest practicable time. The failure of a vessel’s radiotelephone equipment shall not, in itself, constitute a violation of this Act, nor shall it obligate the master of any vessel to moor or anchor his vessel; however, the loss of radiotelephone capability shall be given consideration in the navigation of the vessel.
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.