---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 281...293"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "281...293"
heading: "Repealed.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status: "repealed"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/33/281...293"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Navigation Rules for Great Lakes and Their Connecting and Tributary Waters"
  - "Subchapter IV — Steering and Sailing Rules"
---

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 Repealed.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 L. 96–591, § 8(b), Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3435 — repealed]



## Notes

Section 281, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 648, related to steering and sailing rules for sailing vessels approaching one another.

Section 282, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 648, related to steam vessels meeting end on.

Section 283, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 648, related to steam vessels crossing.

Section 284, acts Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 648; Nov. 5, 1966, Pub. L. 89–764, § 3, 80 Stat. 1313, related to steam and sailing vessels meeting.

Section 285, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 649, related to maintenance of course and speed by vessel having right-of-way.

Section 286, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 649, related to duty of steam vessel to slacken speed.

Section 287, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 649, related to duty of overtaking vessel to keep out of the way.

Section 288, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 649, related to whistle signals of steam vessels to indicate course.

Section 289, acts Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 649; Nov. 5, 1966, Pub. L. 89–764, § 4, 80 Stat. 1313, related to right-of-way when steam vessels meet in narrow channels having current and certain rivers, etc.

Section 290, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 649, related to steam vessels passing in narrow channels and slackening speed when meeting in narrow channels.

Section 291, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 649, related to dissent to or misunderstanding of signal given and duty to reduce speed.

Section 292, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 649, related to departure from rules to avert immediate danger.

Section 293, act Feb. 8, 1895, ch. 64, § 1, 28 Stat. 649, related to usual additional precautions generally required.

### 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.