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[CITE: 33USC754a]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                         CHAPTER 16--LIGHTHOUSES
 
Sec. 754a. Purchase of commissary and quartermaster supplies

    Officers and crews of vessels of the Lighthouse Service and light 
keepers and depot keepers of the Lighthouse Service shall be permitted 
to purchase commissary and quartermaster supplies from the Army, Navy, 
or Marine Corps at the price charged officers and enlisted men of the 
Army, Navy, or Marine Corps.

(May 22, 1926, ch. 371, Sec. 4, 44 Stat. 626.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Bureau of Lighthouses, of which Lighthouse Service was a part, 
transferred and consolidated with Coast Guard by Reorg. Plan No. II of 
1939, Sec. 2(a), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1432, set out 
in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
    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. 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, Coast 
Guard.
    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. See section 
108 of Title 49, Transportation.
