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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 10 — Anchorage Grounds and Harbor Regulations Generally

§ 475. Regulations for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Statutory text

For the proper control, protection, and defense of the naval station, harbor, and entrance channel at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, empowered, and directed to adopt and prescribe suitable rules and regulations governing the navigation, movement, and anchorage of vessels of whatsoever character in the waters of Pearl Harbor, island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, and in the entrance channel to said harbor, and to take all necessary measures for the proper enforcement of such rules and regulations.

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. 62–335 · 37 Stat. 328

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 475

    (Aug. 22, 1912, ch. 335, 37 Stat. 341.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 22, 1912, ch. 335, 37 Stat. 341.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is from the Naval Appropriation Act for 1913.

Executive Documents

Admission of Hawaii as State

Admission of Hawaii into the Union was accomplished , on issuance of Proc. No. 3309, , 24 F.R. 6868, 73 Stat. c74, as required by sections 1 and 7(c) of Pub. L. 86–3, , 73 Stat. 4, set out as notes preceding section 491 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Credits

(Aug. 22, 1912, ch. 335, 37 Stat. 341.)

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