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PUBLIC LAW 89-662-OCT. 14, 1966

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Public Law 89-662 October 14, 1966

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Coast Guard. Navigation aids.

68 Stat. 1237.

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To improve the aids to navigation services of the Coast Guard.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 81 .

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01 title 14, United btates Code, is amended to read as tollows: "§ 81. Aids to navigation authorized "In order to aid navigation and to prevent disasters, collisions, and wrecks of vessels and aircraft, the Coast Guard may establish, maintain, and operate: "(1) aids to maritime navigation required to serve the needs of the armed forces or of the commerce of the United States; "(2) aids to air navigation required to serve the needs of the armed forces of the United States peculiar to warfare and primarily of military concern as determined by the Secretary of Defense ot the Secretary of any department within the Department of Defense and as requested by any of those officials; and " (3) electronic aids to navigation systems (a) required to serve the needs of the armed forces of the United States peculiar to warfare and primarily of military concern as determined by the Secretary of Defense or any department within the Department of Defense; or (b) required to serve the needs of the maritime commerce of the United States; or (c) required to serve the needs of the air commerce of the United States as requested by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency. These aids to navigation other than electronic aids to navigation systems shall be established and operated only within the United States, the waters above the Continental Shelf, the territories and possessions of the United States, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and beyond the territorial jurisdiction of the United States at places where naval or military bases of the United States are or may be located." SEC. 2. Section 82 of title 14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "§82. Cooperation with Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency "The Coast Guard, in establishing, maintaining, or operating any aids to air navigation herein provided, shall solicit the cooperation of the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency to the end that the personnel and facilities of the Federal Aviation Agency will be utilized to the fullest possible advantage. Before locating and operating any such aid on military or naval bases or regions, the consent of the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force, as the case may be, shall first be obtained. No such aid shall be located within the territorial jurisdiction of any foreign country without the consent of the government thereof. Nothing in this title shall be deemed to limit the authority granted by tj^g Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (ch. 20 of title 49), or by the provisions of sections 7392 and 7394 of title 10." Approved October 14, 1966.

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