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[CITE: 33USC472]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
     CHAPTER 10--ANCHORAGE GROUNDS AND HARBOR REGULATIONS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 472. Marking anchorage grounds by Commandant of the Coast 
        Guard
        
    The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall provide, establish, and 
maintain, out of the annual appropriations for the Coast Guard, buoys or 
other suitable marks for marking anchorage grounds for vessels in waters 
of the United States, when such anchorage grounds have been defined and 
established by proper authority in accordance with the laws of the 
United States.

(Sept. 15, 1922, ch. 313, 42 Stat. 844; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, 
Sec. 2(a), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1432.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Commandant of the Coast Guard'' and ``Coast Guard'' substituted in 
text for ``Commissioner of Lighthouses'' and ``Lighthouse Service'', 
respectively, on authority of Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, Sec. 2(a), set 
out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, 
which transferred and consolidated the Bureau of Lighthouses (of which 
the Lighthouse Service was a part and of which the Commissioner of 
Lighthouses was the head) and its functions with the Coast Guard (of 
which the Commandant was the Chief).
    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, excepted from 
transfer when Coast Guard is operating as part of Navy under sections 1 
and 3 of Title 14, Coast Guard.
    Coast Guard transferred to Department of Transportation, and 
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 the 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.
