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2025 California Code
Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC
DIVISION 2 - NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 3 - Losses
ARTICLE 1 - Navigation Rules
Section 283.
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CA Harb & Nav Code § 283 (2025)
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283. A steam vessel navigating a narrow channel shall, whenever it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fairway or mid-channel which lies on its starboard side, and a steam vessel when passing another in such a channel, shall always leave the other upon the port side.
(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
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