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33 U.S.C. § 1204 — Radiotelephone for exclusive use of master, person in charge, or pilot; frequency listening watch; portable radiotelephone equipment

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33 U.S.C. § 1204 — Radiotelephone for exclusive use of master, person in charge, or pilot; frequency listening watch; portable radiotelephone equipment

The radiotelephone required by this chapter is for the exclusive use of the master or person in charge of the vessel, or the person designated by the master or person in charge to pilot or direct the movement of the vessel, who shall maintain a listening watch on the designated frequency. Nothing contained herein shall be interpreted as precluding the use of portable radiotelephone equipment to satisfy the requirements of this chapter.

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33 U.S.C. § 1201 — Statement of purpose

It is the purpose of this chapter to provide a positive means whereby the operators of approaching vessels can communicate their intentions to one another through voice radio, located convenient to the operator’s navigation station. To effectively accomplish this, there is need for a specific frequency or frequencies dedicated to the exchange of navigational information, on navigable waters of the United States.

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33 U.S.C. § 1204 — Radiotelephone for exclusive use of mas-

Page 346 TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS § 1203 its provisions, whichever is later, see section 10 of Pub. L. 92–63, set out as a note under section 1201 of this title. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relat- ing thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Secu- rity, and the Department of Homeland Security Reor- ganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6. § 1203. Radiotelephone requirement (a) Vessel coverage; exchange of navigational in- formation Except as provided in section 1206 of this title— (1) every power-driven vessel of twenty me- ters 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 Sec- retary under section 14104 of that title, and up- ward 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 capa- ble of transmitting and receiving on the fre- quency or frequencies within the 156–162 Mega- Hertz band using the classes of emissions des- ignated by the Federal Communications Com- mission

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