---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 401.450"
title: "46"
number: "401.450"
heading: "Pilot change points."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/401.450"
---

# §401.450. Pilot change points.


A Registered Pilot's assignment is completed when the vessel to which they are assigned completes its arrival at or, in the case of a through trip, passes any of the following places:

- (a) Snell Lock;
- (b) Iroquois Lock, Ogdensburg, NY;
- (c) Cape Vincent;
- (d) Port Weller;
- (e) Port Colborne;
- (f) Detroit/Windsor, other than assignments originating or terminating at a point on the Detroit River;
- (g) Port Huron/Sarnia;
- (h) Detour;
- (i) **Buoy 33, St.** Marys River, Point Iroquois;
- (j) Chicago with respect to assignments originating at Detour or Port Huron/Sarnia; and
- (k) **Duluth/Superior and Fort William/Port Arthur with respect to assignments originating at Buoy 33.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGFR 68-57, 33 FR 6479, Apr. 27, 1968. Redesignated at 61 FR 32655, June 25, 1996, and further redesignated by USCG-1998-3976, 63 FR 35139, June 29, 1998; USCG-2008-0906, 73 FR 56511, Sept. 29, 2008; USCG-2016-0268, 82 FR 41495, Aug. 31, 2017; 82 FR 43864, Sept. 20, 2017; USCG-2022-0025, 89 FR 76352, Sept. 17, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 2103, 2104(a), 6101, 7701, 8105, 9303, 9304; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Amendments

[CGFR 68-57, 33 FR 6479, Apr. 27, 1968. Redesignated at 61 FR 32655, June 25, 1996, and further redesignated by USCG-1998-3976, 63 FR 35139, June 29, 1998; USCG-2008-0906, 73 FR 56511, Sept. 29, 2008; USCG-2016-0268, 82 FR 41495, Aug. 31, 2017; 82 FR 43864, Sept. 20, 2017; USCG-2022-0025, 89 FR 76352, Sept. 17, 2024]