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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 24 — Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Communication

§ 1207. Regulations

Statutory text

(a)

Operating and technical conditions and characteristics; frequencies, emission, and power of radiotelephone equipment

The Federal Communications Commission shall, after consultation with other cognizant agencies, prescribe regulations necessary to specify operating and technical conditions and characteristics including frequencies, emission, and power of radiotelephone equipment required under this chapter.

(b)

Enforcement

The Secretary shall, subject to the concurrence of the Federal Communications Commission, prescribe regulations for the enforcement 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.

  1. Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act

    Pub. L. 92–63 § 8 · 85 Stat. 164

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 1207

    (Pub. L. 92–63, § 8, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 92–63, § 8, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. (a) The Federal Communications Commission shall, after Regulations. consultation with other cognizant agencies, prescribe regulations necessary to specify operating and technical conditions and characteristics including frequencies, emission, and power of radiotelephone equipment required under this Act. (b) The Secretary shall, subject to the concurrence of the Federal Communications Commission, prescribe regulations for the enforcement 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.

Credits

(Pub. L. 92–63, § 8, , 85 Stat. 165.)

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