33 U.S.C. § 1203 : US Code - Section 1203: Radiotelephone requirement

Search 33 U.S.C. § 1203 : US Code - Section 1203: Radiotelephone requirement

(a) Vessel coverage; exchange of navigational information
Except as provided in section 1206 of this title -
(1) every power-driven vessel of twenty meters or over in
length while navigating;
(2) every vessel of one hundred gross tons as measured under
section 14502 of title 46, or an alternate tonnage measured under
section 14302 of that title as prescribed by the Secretary under
section 14104 of that title, and upward carrying one or more
passengers for hire while navigating;
(3) every towing vessel of twenty-six feet or over in length
while navigating; and
(4) every dredge and floating plant engaged in or near a
channel or fairway in operations likely to restrict or affect
navigation of other vessels -
shall have a radiotelephone capable of operation from its
navigational bridge or, in the case of a dredge, from its main
control station and capable of transmitting and receiving on the
frequency or frequencies within the 156-162 Mega-Hertz band using
the classes of emissions designated by the Federal Communications
Commission, after consultation with other cognizant agencies, for
the exchange of navigational information.
(b) Vessels upon navigable waters of United States inside high seas
lines
The radiotelephone required by subsection (a) of this section
shall be carried on board the described vessels, dredges, and
floating plants upon the navigable waters of the United States,
which includes all waters of the territorial sea of the United
States as described in Presidential Proclamation 5928 of December
27, 1988.