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[CITE: 33USC1205]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
            CHAPTER 24--VESSEL BRIDGE-TO-BRIDGE COMMUNICATION
 
Sec. 1205. Radiotelephone capability; maintenance; restoration; 
        consequences of loss: navigation of vessel
        
    Whenever radiotelephone capability is required by this chapter, a 
vessel's radiotelephone equipment shall be maintained in effective 
operating condition. If the radiotelephone equipment carried aboard a 
vessel ceases to operate, the master shall exercise due diligence to 
restore it or cause it to be restored to effective operating condition 
at the earliest practicable time. The failure of a vessel's 
radiotelephone equipment shall not, in itself, constitute a violation of 
this chapter, nor shall it obligate the master of any vessel to moor or 
anchor his vessel; however, the loss of radiotelephone capability shall 
be given consideration in the navigation of the vessel.

(Pub. L. 92-63, Sec. 6, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)
