---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 272"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "272"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 96–591, § 8(b), Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3435"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/272"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Navigation Rules for Great Lakes and Their Connecting and Tributary Waters"
  - "Subchapter III — Sound Signals for Fog, Etc.; Speed"
---

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 Repealed.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 L. 96–591, § 8(b), Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3435 — repealed]



## Notes

Section 271, acts Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 647; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 101–104, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097; Mar. 18, 1948, ch. 138, § 4, 62 Stat. 82, related to sound signals in fog, etc., of steam and sailing vessels under way, at anchor or aground.

Section 272, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 648, related to speed in fog, etc.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective Mar. 1, 1983, pursuant to 47 F.R. 15135, Apr. 8, 1982, see section 7 of Pub. L. 96–591, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 1604 of this title.