---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 401.720"
title: "46"
number: "401.720"
heading: "Authority of the Director over operations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/401.720"
---

# §401.720. Authority of the Director over operations.

- (a) **This section does not limit the authority of the Director under any other section in this chapter.**
- (b) When pilotage service is not provided by the association authorized under [46 U.S.C. 9304](/usc/46/9304.md) because of a physical or economic inability to do so, or when the Certificate of Authorization is under suspension or revocation under [§ 401.335](/cfr/46/401.335.md), the Director may order any U.S. registered pilot to provide pilotage service.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 74-233, 40 FR 41527, Sept. 8, 1975, as amended by CGD 75-228, 40 FR 57673, Dec. 11, 1975. Redesignated and amended at 61 FR 32655, June 25, 1996, and further redesignated and amended by USCG-1998-3976, 63 FR 35139, 35140, June 29, 1998; USCG-2008-0906, 73 FR 56511, Sept. 29, 2008]

### Authority

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

### Amendments

[CGD 74-233, 40 FR 41527, Sept. 8, 1975, as amended by CGD 75-228, 40 FR 57673, Dec. 11, 1975. Redesignated and amended at 61 FR 32655, June 25, 1996, and further redesignated and amended by USCG-1998-3976, 63 FR 35139, 35140, June 29, 1998; USCG-2008-0906, 73 FR 56511, Sept. 29, 2008]