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[CITE: 33USC730a]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                         CHAPTER 16--LIGHTHOUSES
 
Sec. 730a. Sites for pierhead beacons

    The Secretary of Transportation is authorized whenever he shall deem 
it advisable, to acquire, by donation or purchase in behalf of the 
United States, the right to use and occupy sites for pierhead beacons 
the establishment of which has been, or shall hereafter be, authorized 
by Congress.

(Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, Sec. 1, 18 Stat. 372; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, 
Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 736; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, Sec. 2(a), eff. July 1, 
1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1432; Pub. L. 89-670, Sec. 6(b)(1), Oct. 15, 
1966, 80 Stat. 938.)

                          Codification

    Section is based on last paragraph under heading ``FOR LIFE-SAVING 
AND LIFE-BOAT STATIONS'' of act Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, 18 Stat. 372, 
insofar as such paragraph provided for the right to use and occupy sites 
for pier-head beacons. Provisions of such paragraph relating to the 
right to use and occupy sites for Coast Guard Stations and houses of 
refuge were classified to section 96 of former Title 14, Coast Guard, 
and were repealed by act Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, Sec. 20, 63 Stat. 561, 
and restated as section 92(f) of Title 14, Coast Guard.

                          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.
    Bureau of Lighthouses and its functions transferred and consolidated 
with Coast Guard by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, Sec. 2(a), set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
