---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 82.5"
title: "33"
number: "82.5"
heading: "Lights for moored vessels."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/82.5"
---

# §82.5. Lights for moored vessels.


For the purposes of [Rule 30](/cfr/33/30.md) of the 72 COLREGS, a vessel at anchor includes a barge made fast to one or more mooring buoys or other similar device attached to the sea or river floor. Such a barge may be lighted as a vessel at anchor in accordance with [Rule 30](/cfr/33/30.md), or may be lighted on the corners in accordance with [33 CFR 83.30(h) through (l)](/cfr/33/83.30.md?p=h..l).


## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 94-011, 63 FR 5731, Feb. 4, 1998, as amended by USCG-2015-0433, 80 FR 44280, July 27, 2015; USCG-2016-0498, 82 FR 35080, July 28, 2017]

### Authority

Authority: 14 U.S.C. 102, 503; 33 U.S.C. 1602; E.O. 11964, 42 FR 4327, 3 CFR, 1977 Comp., p. 88; 49 CFR 1.46(n).

### Amendments

[CGD 94-011, 63 FR 5731, Feb. 4, 1998, as amended by USCG-2015-0433, 80 FR 44280, July 27, 2015; USCG-2016-0498, 82 FR 35080, July 28, 2017]