---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 452"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "452"
heading: "Pilot charts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/452"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 22 — National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency"
  - "Subchapter II — Maps, Charts, and Geomatics Products"
---

# §452. Pilot charts

- (a) There shall be conspicuously printed on pilot charts prepared in the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) the following: “Prepared from data furnished by the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense and by the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Commerce, and published at the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) under the authority of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense”.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Commerce shall furnish to the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3), as quickly as possible, all meteorological information received by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) that is necessary for, and of the character used in, preparing pilot charts.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 97–295, § 1(50)(C), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1299, § 2793; renumbered § 452 and amended Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XI, § 1112(b), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2682; Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title IX, § 921(d)(2)(A), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1568.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 2793 | 10:7393. |  |

The words “Secretary of Defense” and “Defense Mapping Agency” are substituted for “Secretary of the Navy” and “United States Naval Oceanographic Office”, respectively, for consistency with 10:2791. The words “Secretary of Commerce” are substituted for “Weather Bureau of the Department of Commerce” to reflect the transfer of functions from the Weather Bureau to the Secretary of Commerce under Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1965 (eff. July 13, 1965, 79 Stat. 1318). The word “quickly” is substituted for “expeditiously” for consistency in title 10.

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 452 was renumbered section 482 of this title.

### Amendments

2003—Pub. L. 108–136 substituted “National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency” for “National Imagery and Mapping Agency” wherever appearing.

1996—Pub. L. 104–201 renumbered section 2793 of this title as this section and substituted “National Imagery and Mapping Agency” for “Defense Mapping Agency” wherever appearing.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 104–201 effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1124 of Pub. L. 104–201, set out as a note under section 193 of this title.