---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 61...63"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "61...63"
heading: "Repealed. Oct. 11, 1951, ch. 495, § 5, 65 Stat. 407"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/61...63"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — International Rules for Navigation at Sea"
---

# [§61...63. Repealed. Oct. 11, 1951, ch. 495, § 5, 65 Stat. 407 — repealed]



## Notes

Section 61, acts Aug. 19, 1890, ch. 802, § 1, 26 Stat. 320; Feb. 19, 1895, ch. 102, § 1, 28 Stat. 672; June 7, 1897, ch. 4, § 1, 30 Stat. 96, related to adoption of rules for navigation on high seas. See section 1602 of this title.

Section 62, act Aug. 19, 1890, ch. 802, § 1, 26 Stat. 320, 321, defined “sailing vessel”, “steam vessel”, and “under way”. See section 1601 of this title.

Section 63, act Aug. 19, 1890, ch. 802, § 1, 26 Stat. 321, defined “visible”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Section 5 of act Oct. 11, 1951, provided that the repeal of these sections is effective upon the taking effect of regulations proclaimed under section 1 of act Oct. 11, 1951. Such regulations were proclaimed by Proc. No. 3030 of Aug. 1, 1953, 18 F.R. 4983, and were to be effective Jan. 1, 1954.