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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , 1ST SESS.--CH. 393-AUG. 4, 1949 navigation established, installed, operated, or maintained by the Coast Guard pursuant to section 81 of this title, or with any aid to Ante, p. 500. navigation lawfully maintained under authority granted by the Coast Guard pursuant to section 83 of this title, or to anchor any vessel Ante p. 500. in any of the navigable waters of the United States so as to obstruct or interfere with range lights maintained therein. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $500 for each offense. Each day during which such violation shall continue shall be considered as a new offense. § 85. Failure to maintain lights; penalty Any person, firm, company, or corporation required by law to maintain lights upon any bridge or abutment over or in any navigable waters who shall fail or refuse to maintain such lights, or to obey any of the lawful rules and regulations relating to the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $100 for each offense. Each day during which such violation shall continue shall be considered as a new offense. § 86. Marking of obstructions The Coast Guard may mark for the protection of navigation any sunken vessel or other similar obstruction existing on any navigable waters of the United States, whenever the owner thereof has, in the judgment of the Coast Guard, failed suitably to mark the same in accordance with the provisions of section 409 of Title 33. Until the abandonment of any such obstruction has been established in accord- ance with the provisions of section 414 of Title 33, the owner thereof shall pay to the Coast Guard the cost of such marking. As soon as the abandonment of any such obstruction has been so established, the Secretary of the Army shall keep the same so marked pending removal thereof in accordance with the provisions of section 414 of Title 33, but the Coast Guard may at the request of the Department of the Army continue the suitable marking of any such obstruction for and on behalf of that Department; and the cost of any such mark- ing shall be borne by the Department of the Army. All monies received by the Coast Guard from the owners of obstructions2 in accordance with the provisions of this section, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. No provision of this section shall be construed so as to relieve the owner of any such obstruction from the duty and responsibility suitably to mark the same in accordance with the provisions of section 409 of Title 33. § 87. Buoys; color and numbering; passing All buoys along the coast, or in bays, harbors, sounds, or channels, shall be colored and numbered so that passing up the coast or sound, or entering the bay, harbor, or channel, red buoys with even numbers shall be passed on the starboard hand, black buoys with uneven numbers on the port hand, and buoys with red and black horizontal stripes on either hand. Buoys in channel ways shall be colored with alternate white and black vertical stripes. § 88. Saving life and property (a) In order to render aid to distressed persons, vessels, and air- craft on the high seas and on waters over which the United States has jurisdiction and in order to render aid to persons and property imperiled by flood, the Coast Guard may: (1) perform any and all acts necessary to rescue and aid per- sons and protect and save property; 501

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