Title 14 — Coast GuardRelease 119-73

§546 Deposit of damage payments

Title 14 › Subtitle SUBTITLE I— - ESTABLISHMENT, POWERS, DUTIES, AND ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 5— - FUNCTIONS AND POWERS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - AIDS TO NAVIGATION › § 546

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When someone damages Coast Guard property (like a navigation aid) and pays for its repair or replacement, the Commandant can accept that payment and put it into a special Treasury account. Money from that account pays the person who fixed or replaced the item and refunds any extra paid. If the Coast Guard used its own budget to make the repairs, those costs must be repaid from the special account.

Full Legal Text

Title 14, §546

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Whenever an aid to navigation or other property belonging to the Coast Guard is damaged or destroyed by a private person, and such private person or his agent shall pay to the satisfaction of the proper official of the Coast Guard for the cost of repair or replacement of such property, the Commandant may accept and deposit such payments, through proper officers of the Fiscal Service, Treasury Department, in special deposit accounts in the Treasury, for payment therefrom to the person or persons repairing or replacing the damaged property and refundment of amounts collected in excess of the cost of the repairs or replacements concerned. In the event that repair or replacement of the damaged property is effected by the Coast Guard, the appropriations bearing the cost thereof and current at the time collection is made shall be reimbursed from the special deposit account.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 33, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 721a (Aug. 16, 1937, ch. 665, § 2, 50 Stat. 667). Changes were made in phraseology. 81st Congress,

House Report No. 557

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 642 of this title as this section.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

14 U.S.C. § 546

Title 14 — Coast Guard

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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