---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 403b"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "403b"
heading: "Lighting at docks and boat launching facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/403b"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — In General"
---

# §403b. Lighting at docks and boat launching facilities


Whenever the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) considers a permit application for a dock or a boat launching facility under [section 403 of this title](/usc/33/403.md), the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall consider the needs of such facility for lighting from sunset to sunrise to make such facility’s presence known within a reasonable distance.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 946, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4200.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2201 of this title.