---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 80.1001"
title: "47"
number: "80.1001"
heading: "Applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/80.1001"
---

# §80.1001. Applicability.


The Bridge-to-Bridge Act and the regulations of this part apply to the following vessels in the navigable waters of the United States:

- (a) Every power-driven vessel of 20 meters or over in length while navigating;
- (b) Every vessel of 100 gross tons and upward carrying one or more passengers for hire while navigating;
- (c) Every towing vessel of 7.8 meters (26 feet) or over in length, measured from end to end over the deck excluding sheer, while navigating; and
- (d) Every dredge and floating plant engaged, in or near a channel or fairway, in operations likely to restrict or affect navigation of other vessels. An unmanned or intermittently manned floating plant under the control of a dredge shall not be required to have a separate radiotelephone capability.

## Notes

### Amendments

[51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 57 FR 61012, Dec. 23, 1992; 58 FR 44954, Aug. 25, 1993]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151-155, 301-609; 3 U.S.T. 3450, 3 U.S.T. 4726, 12 U.S.T. 2377.

### Source

Source: 51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 57 FR 61012, Dec. 23, 1992; 58 FR 44954, Aug. 25, 1993]