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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally

§ 403b. Lighting at docks and boat launching facilities

Statutory text

Whenever the Secretary considers a permit application for a dock or a boat launching facility under section 403 of this title, the Secretary shall consider the needs of such facility for lighting from sunset to sunrise to make such facility’s presence known within a reasonable distance.

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. Pub. L. 99–662 title IX § 946 · 100 Stat. 4082

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 403b

    (Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 946, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4200.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 946, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4200.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 946. LIGHTING AT DOCKS AND BOAT LAUNCHING FACILITIES. Whenever the Secretary considers a permit application for a dock or a boat launching facility under section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 1151; 33 U.S.C. 403), the Secretary shall consider the needs of such facility for lighting from sunset to sunrise to make such facility’s presence known within a reasonable distance.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

“Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2201 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 946, , 100 Stat. 4200.)

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