---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 739...740b"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "739...740b"
heading: "Repealed.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status: "repealed"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/33/739...740b"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Lighthouses"
---

# [§739...740b. Repealed. Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, § 20, 63 Stat. 561 — repealed]



## Notes

Section 739, R.S. § 4668, related to substitution of lighthouses for lightships.

Section 740, acts Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 81, § 5, 38 Stat. 927; Aug. 28, 1916, ch. 414, § 3, 39 Stat. 538; June 20, 1918, ch. 103, § 5, 40 Stat. 608; June 5, 1920, ch. 235, § 1, 41 Stat. 927, related to post-lantern lights on particular waters.

Section 740a, act May 22, 1926, ch. 371, § 6, 44 Stat. 626, related to post-lantern lights on Allegheny and Rock Rivers.

Section 740b, acts June 23, 1874, ch. 455, § 1, 18 Stat. 220; June 17, 1910, ch. 301, § 6, 36 Stat. 538, related to lights and buoys on Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers.

Sections covered by 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.