---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 331"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "331"
heading: "Repealed.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status: "repealed"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/33/331"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Navigation Rules for Red River of the North and Rivers Emptying into Gulf of Mexico and Tributaries"
  - "Subchapter III — Sound Signals for Fog, Etc."
---

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 Repealed.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 L. 96–591, § 8(a), Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3435 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, R.S. § 4233; Feb. 19, 1895, ch. 102, § 1, 28 Stat. 672; Mar. 3, 1897, ch. 389, § 12, 29 Stat. 690; May 21, 1948, ch. 328, § 4, 62 Stat. 253; Aug. 5, 1963, Pub. L. 88–84, § 4, 77 Stat. 117, related to manner of giving signals for vessels under way, in fog or bad weather, or at anchor.

### 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.