Notes on navigation rules for great lakes and their connecting and tributary waters : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on navigation rules for great lakes and their connecting and tributary waters : US Code - Notes

Prior rules for preventing collision prescribed by R.S. Sec. 4233
to be followed by vessels of the Navy and mercantile marine of the
United States, applicable originally to all waters, were superseded
as to navigation on the high seas and waters connected therewith by
the International Rules (act Aug. 19, 1890, ch. 802 [sec. 61 et
seq. of this title]) were superseded as to navigation on the Great
Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as
Montreal, by act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64 (section 241 et seq. of this
title); were adopted as special rules for the navigation of
harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States, except the
Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east
as Montreal by act of Feb. 19, 1895, ch. 102 (see section 301 et
seq. of this title); and were superseded as to navigation of all
harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States, except the
Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east
as Montreal and the Red River of the North and rivers emptying into
the Gulf of Mexico and their tributaries by act June 7, 1897, ch.
4, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 96 (section 151 et seq. of this title), leaving
them applicable solely to the Red River of the North and rivers
emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. See section 2001 et seq. of this
title.