Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 24 — Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Communication
§ 1206. Exemptions; terms and conditions
Statutory text
The Secretary may, if he considers that marine navigational safety will not be adversely affected or where a local communication system fully complies with the intent of this concept but does not conform in detail, issue exemptions from any provisions of this chapter, on such terms and conditions as he considers appropriate.
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 § 7 · 85 Stat. 164
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 1206
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 7, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 7, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. The Secretary may, if he considers that marine navigational Exemptions. safety will not be adversely affected or where a local communication system fully complies with the intent of this concept but does not conform in detail, issue exemptions from any provisions of this Act, on such terms and conditions as he considers appropriate.
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.