Title 14 — Coast GuardRelease 119-73
§551 Marking anchorage grounds by Commandant of the Coast Guard
Title 14 › Subtitle SUBTITLE I— - ESTABLISHMENT, POWERS, DUTIES, AND ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 5— - FUNCTIONS AND POWERS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - AIDS TO NAVIGATION › § 551
Summary
The Coast Guard Commandant must use annual Coast Guard funds to place and keep buoys or markers at anchorage areas that have been officially established under U.S. law.
Full Legal Text
Title 14, §551
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The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall provide, establish, and maintain, out of the annual appropriations for the Coast Guard, buoys or other suitable marks for marking anchorage grounds for vessels in waters of the United States, when such anchorage grounds have been defined and established by proper authority in accordance with the laws of the United States.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification The text of section 472 of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, which was transferred to appear at the end of this subchapter, redesignated as section 548 of this title, and amended by Pub. L. 117–263, § 11808(c), was based on act Sept. 15, 1922, ch. 313, 42 Stat. 844.
Amendments
2025—Pub. L. 119–60, §§ 7264(a)(1)(A), 7701(i)(1), made identical
Amendments
, renumbering the second section 548 of this title as this section. 2022—Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “The Commandant of the Coast Guard” for “That hereafter the Commissioner of Lighthouses” and “for the Coast Guard” for “for the Lighthouse Service”.
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Citation
14 U.S.C. § 551
Title 14 — Coast Guard
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73