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[CITE: 33USC1235]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
             CHAPTER 25--PORTS AND WATERWAYS SAFETY PROGRAM
 
Sec. 1235. Transfer of authority to regulate to head of other 
        department
        
    The authority and power bestowed upon the Commandant of the Coast 
Guard by sections 1233 and 1234 of this title may be transferred for any 
special occasion to the head of another department by the President 
whenever in his judgment such transfer is desirable.

(Apr. 28, 1908, ch. 151, Sec. 3, 35 Stat. 69; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, 
Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 736; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Secs. 101-104, eff. July 
16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Ports and Waterways Safety 
Act which comprises this chapter.
    Section was formerly classified to section 456 of former Title 46, 
Shipping.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Coast Guard transferred to Department of Transportation, and all 
functions, powers, and duties relating to Coast Guard of Secretary of 
the Treasury and of other officers and offices of Department of the 
Treasury transferred to Secretary of Transportation by Pub. L. 89-670, 
Sec. 6(b)(1), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 938. Section 6(b)(2) of Pub. L. 
89-670, however, provided that notwithstanding such transfer of 
functions, Coast Guard shall operate as part of Navy in time of war or 
when President directs as provided in section 3 of Title 14, Coast 
Guard. See section 108 of Title 49, Transportation.
    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Treasury, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Treasury with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, 1281, set 
out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. 
Functions of Coast Guard, and Commandant of Coast Guard, were excepted 
from transfer when Coast Guard is operating as part of Navy under 
sections 1 and 3 of Title 14.
    ``Commandant of the Coast Guard'' substituted for ``Secretary of 
Commerce'' on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Secs. 101-104, set 
out in the Appendix to Title 5.
    Upon incorporation into the Code, the words ``Secretary of 
Commerce'' were substituted for ``Secretary of Commerce and Labor'' to 
conform to act Mar. 4, 1913, which provided that the Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor should be called the Secretary of Commerce.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1234, 1236 of this title.
