---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 231"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "231"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 96–591, § 8(a), Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3435"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/231"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Navigation Rules for Harbors, Rivers, and Inland Waters Generally"
  - "Subchapter VI — Distress Signals"
---

# [§231. Repealed. Pub. L. 96–591, § 8(a), Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3435 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act June 7, 1897, ch. 4, § 1, 30 Stat. 102, related to distress signals.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective Dec. 24, 1981, see section 7 of Pub. L. 96–591, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 1604 of this title.