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[CITE: 14USC84]

 
                          TITLE 14--COAST GUARD
 
                       PART I--REGULAR COAST GUARD
 
                     CHAPTER 5--FUNCTIONS AND POWERS
 
Sec. 84. Interference with aids to navigation; penalty

    It shall be unlawful for any person, or public body, or 
instrumentality, excluding the armed forces, to remove, change the 
location of, obstruct, wilfully damage, make fast to, or interfere with 
any aid to navigation established, installed, operated, or maintained by 
the Coast Guard pursuant to section 81 of this title, or with any aid to 
navigation lawfully maintained under authority granted by the Coast 
Guard pursuant to section 83 of this title, or to anchor any vessel 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.

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 500.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 33, U.S.C., 1946, ed., Secs. 761, 762 (May 14, 1908, 
ch. 168, Sec. 6, 35 Stat. 162; June 17, 1910, ch. 301, Sec. 6, 36 Stat. 
538; Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 81, Sec. 8, 38 Stat. 928; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. 
II, Sec. 2(a), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1432).
    Changes were made in phraseology. 81st Congress, House Report No. 
557.
