Title 14 — Coast GuardRelease 119-73not60
§546 Deposit of Damage Payments
Title 14 › Subtitle SUBTITLE I— ESTABLISHMENT, POWERS, DUTIES, AND ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 5— FUNCTIONS AND POWERS › Subchapter III— AIDS TO NAVIGATION › § 546
Summary
When someone damages Coast Guard property, including aids to navigation, and the payment is accepted, the Commandant may deposit that money with the Treasury Fiscal Service into a special account to pay repairers and refund any excess. If the Coast Guard already paid to fix it, those costs are repaid from that 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
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Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 642 of this title as this section.
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Citation
14 U.S.C. § 546
Title 14 — Coast Guard
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
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