Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73
§475 Regulations for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 10— - ANCHORAGE GROUNDS AND HARBOR REGULATIONS GENERALLY › § 475
Summary
The Secretary of the Navy must make and enforce rules about how all vessels move, navigate, and anchor in Pearl Harbor and its entrance channel to control, protect, and defend the naval station and harbor.
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Title 33, §475
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For the proper control, protection, and defense of the naval station, harbor, and entrance channel at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, empowered, and directed to adopt and prescribe suitable rules and regulations governing the navigation, movement, and anchorage of vessels of whatsoever character in the waters of Pearl Harbor, island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, and in the entrance channel to said harbor, and to take all necessary measures for the proper enforcement of such rules and regulations.
Legislative History
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section is from the Naval Appropriation Act for 1913.
Executive Documents
Admission of Hawaii as StateAdmission of Hawaii into the Union was accomplished Aug. 21, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3309, Aug. 21, 1959, 24 F.R. 6868, 73 Stat. c74, as required by section 1 and 7(c) of Pub. L. 86–3, Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 4, set out as notes preceding section 491 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
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33 U.S.C. § 475
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73