---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 720a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "720a"
heading: "Repealed. Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, § 20, 63 Stat. 561"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/720a"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Lighthouses"
---

# [§720a. Repealed. Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, § 20, 63 Stat. 561 — repealed]



## Notes

Section 720, acts June 17, 1910, ch. 301, § 7, 36 Stat. 538; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736, related to general control by Commandant of Coast Guard. See section 541 of Title 14, Coast Guard.

Section 720a, act Aug. 16, 1937, ch. 665, § 3, 50 Stat. 667, related to establishment and maintenance of aids to navigation in certain waters. See section 541 of Title 14, Coast Guard.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective first day of third month after approval by President [Aug. 4, 1949], see section 19 of act Aug. 4, 1949, set out as an Effective Date note preceding chapter 1 of Title 14, Coast Guard.