2015 US Code
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters (Sections 1 - 4009)
Chapter 16 - Lighthouses (Sections 711 - 776)
Sec. 743 - Lighthouse districts
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS CHAPTER 16 - LIGHTHOUSES Sec. 743 - Lighthouse districts |
| Contains | section 743 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2016 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | June 17, 1910, ch. 301, §11, 36 Stat. 538; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158. |
| Statutes at Large References | 24 Stat. 148 36 Stat. 538 47 Stat. 158 |
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The ocean, gulf, and lake coasts and the rivers of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the naval station in Cuba shall be arranged into not exceeding nineteen lighthouse districts.
(June 17, 1910, ch. 301, §11, 36 Stat. 538; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.)
CODIFICATIONThis section was enacted as part of section 11 of act June 17, 1910, which also enacted section 717 of this title.
The original text provided "that the commissioner of lighthouses, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, as soon as practicable" should rearrange the ocean, gulf and lake coasts and the rivers of the United States, Puerto Rico and the naval station in Cuba into not exceeding nineteen lighthouse districts.
PRIOR PROVISIONSPrior provisions for the arrangement of the various lighthouse districts were made by R.S. §4670; act July 26, 1886, ch. 779, 24 Stat. 148, which were repealed by section 13 of act June 17, 1910.
CHANGE OF NAME"Puerto Rico" substituted in text for "Porto Rico" pursuant to act May 17, 1932, which is classified to section 731a of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
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