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[CITE: 33USC2015]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                  CHAPTER 34--INLAND NAVIGATIONAL RULES
 
                           SUBCHAPTER I--RULES
 
                   Part B--Steering and Sailing Rules
 
         subpart ii--conduct of vessels in sight of one another
 
Sec. 2015. Crossing situation (Rule 15)


(a) Vessel which must keep out of the other vessel's way

    When two power-driven vessels are crossing so as to involve risk of 
collision, the vessel which has the other on her starboard side shall 
keep out of the way and shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, 
avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel.

(b) Vessels crossing river

    Notwithstanding paragraph (a), on the Great Lakes, Western Rivers, 
or water specified by the Secretary, a power-driven vessel crossing a 
river shall keep out of the way of a power-driven vessel ascending or 
descending the river.

(Pub. L. 96-591, Sec. 2, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3421; Pub. L. 104-324, 
title VII, Sec. 701(2), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3932.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of section 2 of Pub. L. 96-591 which 
enacted the Inland Navigational Rules which comprise this subchapter.


                               Amendments

    1996--Par. (b). Pub. L. 104-324 inserted ``power-driven'' after 
``Secretary, a''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2011, 2013, 2018 of this 
title.
