---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 161.11"
title: "33"
number: "161.11"
heading: "VTS measures."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/161.11"
---

# §161.11. VTS measures.

- (a) A VTS may issue measures or directions to enhance navigation and vessel safety and to protect the marine environment, such as, but not limited to:
  - (1) Designating temporary reporting points and procedures;
  - (2) Imposing vessel operating requirements; or
  - (3) **Establishing vessel traffic routing schemes.**
- (b) During conditions of vessel congestion, restricted visibility, adverse weather, or other hazardous circumstances, a VTS may control, supervise, or otherwise manage traffic, by specifying times of entry, movement, or departure to, from, or within a VTS area.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 70001, 70002, 70003, 70034, 70114, 70119; Pub. L. 107-295, 116 Stat. 2064; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.3.

### Source

Source: CGD 90-020, 59 FR 36324, July 15, 1994, unless otherwise noted.