---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1207"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1207"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1207"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Vessel Bridge-To-Bridge Communication"
---

# §1207. Regulations

- (a) **Operating and technical conditions and characteristics; frequencies, emission, and power of radiotelephone equipment—** The Federal Communications Commission shall, after consultation with other cognizant agencies, prescribe regulations necessary to specify operating and technical conditions and characteristics including frequencies, emission, and power of radiotelephone equipment required under this chapter.
- (b) **Enforcement—** The [Secretary](/usc/33/1202.md?p=1) shall, subject to the concurrence of the Federal Communications Commission, prescribe regulations for the enforcement of this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–63, § 8, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective May 1, 1971, or six months after the promulgation of regulations which would implement its provisions, whichever is later, see section 10 of Pub. L. 92–63, set out as a note under section 1201 of this title.