---
kind: "unit"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
key: "stI/ch5/schIII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter III"
heading: "Aids to Navigation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/stI-ch5-schIII"
sections_count: 12
---

# Subchapter III — Aids to Navigation

Title 14 — Coast Guard › Subtitle I — Establishment, Powers, Duties, and Administration › Chapter 5 — Functions and Powers

## Sections

- [§541. Aids to navigation authorized](/usc/14/541.md)
- [§542. Unauthorized aids to maritime navigation; penalty](/usc/14/542.md)
- [§543. Interference with aids to navigation; penalty](/usc/14/543.md)
- [§544. Aids to maritime navigation; penalty](/usc/14/544.md)
- [§545. Marking of obstructions](/usc/14/545.md)
- [§546. Deposit of damage payments](/usc/14/546.md)
- [§547. Rewards for apprehension of persons interfering with aids to navigation](/usc/14/547.md)
- [§548. Prohibition against officers and employees being interested in contracts for materials](/usc/14/548.md)
- [§549. Lighthouse and other sites; necessity and sufficiency of cession by State of jurisdiction](/usc/14/549.md)
- [§550. Marking pierheads in certain lakes](/usc/14/550.md)
- [§551. Marking anchorage grounds by Commandant of the Coast Guard](/usc/14/551.md)
- [§552. Discontinuance of aid to navigation](/usc/14/552.md)