---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 763"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "763"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8510(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4757; Pub. L. 117–263, div. K, title CXVIII, § 11808(a)(13), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 4165"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/763"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Lighthouses"
---

# [§763. Repealed. Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8510(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4757; Pub. L. 117–263, div. K, title CXVIII, § 11808(a)(13), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 4165 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts June 20, 1918, ch. 103, § 6, 40 Stat. 608; Nov. 4, 1918, ch. 201, § 1, 40 Stat. 1036; June 21, 1955, ch. 170, § 1, 69 Stat. 166; Pub. L. 85–142, Aug. 14, 1957, 71 Stat. 365; Pub. L. 90–164, § 1, Nov. 29, 1967, 81 Stat. 519; Pub. L. 92–455, § 6(a), Oct. 2, 1972, 86 Stat. 761, related to retirement of officers and employees of the Lighthouse Service.

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section 763 consisted mostly of provisions from section 6 of act June 20, 1918, as amended, with one additional proviso from act Nov. 4, 1918, and was restated at former section 2532 of Title 14, Coast Guard. Section 6 of act June 20, 1918, was repealed by Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8510(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4757. The proviso from act Nov. 4, 1918, was repealed by Pub. L. 117–263, div. K, title CXVIII, § 11808(a)(13), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 4165.