The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of AmericaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - Administrative law The Code of federal regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
active duty agency controlling aids to navigation amended anchor anchorage application Army Atlantic Ocean authorized barges Board boats Buoy canal CGFR channel charge Chesapeake Bay Chief of Engineers Coast Guard officer Commandant controlling the bridge craft danger zone Department desires to pass district Coast Guard District Engineer draw tender drawbridge drawspan dredged east enlisted feet Gulf of Mexico Harbor highway bridge Island Lake line bearing line ranging lock lockage long blast Long Island Sound longitude Marys River ment miles Mississippi River moored nautical miles Naval navigable waters Navy Notices to Mariners obstruct opened immediately operation owner paragraph passage permit pier Port prescribed rafts Railroad red light Regs regulations Reserve Reservists River San Pablo Bay Secretary sels shore short blasts side Stat steam vessel subparagraph Subpart thence to latitude tion training duty tributaries Unmarked Point watercraft waterway whistle or horn yards
Popular passages
Page 544 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. And they constitute navigable waters of the United States...
Page 113 - It does not apply by day to cases in which a vessel sees another ahead crossing her own course, or by night to cases where the red light of one vessel is opposed to the red light of the other, or where the green light of one vessel is opposed to the green light of the other, or where a red light without a green light or a green light without a red light is seen ahead, or where both green and red lights are seen anywhere but ahead.
Page 544 - And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of the states, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other states or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water.
Page 133 - When a vessel is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, namely: In the daytime — First. A gun or other explosive signal fired at intervals of about a minute.
Page 132 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Page 532 - War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 114 - Every vessel shall in a fog, mist, falling snow or heavy rainstorms, go at a moderate speed, having careful regard to the existing circumstances and conditions. A steam vessel hearing, apparently forward of her beam, the fog signal of a vessel, the position of which is not ascertained shall, so far as the circumstances of the case admit, stop her engines, and then navigate with caution until danger of collision is over.
Page 113 - ... shall be deemed to be an overtaking vessel; and no subsequent alteration of the bearing between the two vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of the rules in this part, or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear.
Page 552 - ... (2) reference to the authority under which the rule is proposed; and (3) either the terms or substance of the proposed rule or a description of the subjects and issues involved.
Page 113 - ... that may be within hearing. Should such signal be so answered by a steam vessel upon the farther side of such bend, then the usual signals for meeting and passing shall immediately be given and answered ; but, if the first alarm signal of such vessel be not answered, she is to consider the channel clear and govern herself accordingly.