---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 90.5"
title: "33"
number: "90.5"
heading: "Lights for moored vessels."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/90.5"
---

# §90.5. Lights for moored vessels.


A vessel at anchor includes a vessel made fast to one or more mooring buoys or other similar device attached to the ocean floor. Such vessels 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 88.30(h) through (l)](/cfr/33/88.30.md?p=h..l).


## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 94-011, 63 FR 5732, Feb. 4, 1998, as amended by USCG-2015-0433, 80 FR 44281, July 27, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 2071; 49 CFR 1.46(n)(14).

### Source

Source: CGD 83-011, 48 FR 51622, Nov. 10, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 94-011, 63 FR 5732, Feb. 4, 1998, as amended by USCG-2015-0433, 80 FR 44281, July 27, 2015]