United States Coast Pilot: Great Lakes, Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior and St. Lawrence River, Volume 6U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Survey, 1995 - Pilot guides |
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Page 25 - Flashing the rays of a searchlight or other blinding light onto the bridge or into the pilothouse of any vessel under way is prohibited. Any person who shall flash or cause to be flashed the rays of a blinding light in violation...
Page 43 - New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day or days observed in lieu of any of these under State law.
Page 46 - River. (a) The draws of the Eighth Street bridge, mile 0.3, and the Tenth Street bridge, mile 0.5, both at Manitowoc, shall open on signal Monday through Friday except Saturdays, Sundays, New Year's Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day or on the Monday following these holidays when they occur on a Sunday.
Page 75 - That the work shall be subject to the supervision and approval of the district engineer, Engineer Department at Large, in charge of the locality, who may temporarily suspend the work at any time if, in his judgment, the interests of navigation so require.
Page 89 - Administrator determines that adequate facilities for the, safe and sanitary removal and treatment of sewage from all vessels are reasonably available for such water to which such prohibition would apply.
Page 90 - Sept. 8. 1975] §401.120 Federal reservation of pilotage regulations. No state, municipal, or other local authority shall require the use of pilots or regulate any aspect of pilotage in any of the waters specified in the Act. Only those persons registered as United States Registered Pilots or Canadian Registered Pilots as defined in this subpart may render pilotage services on any vessel subject to the Act and the Memorandum of Arrangements, Great Lakes Pilotage.
Page 79 - ... when he shall have arrived within half a mile of such curve or bend, shall give a signal by one long blast of the...
Page 24 - ... apart. The highest and lowest of these lights shall be red, and the middle light shall be white, and they shall...
Page 22 - ... sinker positions are not under continuous surveillance, but are normally checked only during periodic maintenance visits which often occur more than a year apart. The position of the buoy body can be expected to shift inside and outside of the charting symbol due to the forces of nature.
Page 49 - State" include the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and any other territory or possession over which the United States has jurisdiction.