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[CITE: 49USC44721]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                     SUBTITLE VII--AVIATION PROGRAMS
 
                     PART A--AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY
 
                           subpart iii--safety
 
                     CHAPTER 447--SAFETY REGULATION
 
Sec. 44721. Aeronautical maps and charts

    (a) Publication.--(1) The Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration may arrange for the publication of aeronautical maps and 
charts necessary for the safe and efficient movement of aircraft in air 
navigation, using the facilities and assistance of departments, 
agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States Government as far 
as practicable.
    (2) In carrying out paragraph (1) of this subsection, the 
Administrator shall update and arrange for the publication of clearly 
defined routes for navigating through a complex terminal airspace area 
and to and from an airport located in such an area, if the Administrator 
decides that publication of the routes would promote safety in air 
navigation. The routes shall be developed in consultation with pilots 
and other users of affected airports and shall be for the optional use 
of pilots operating under visual flight rules.
    (b) Indemnification.--The Government shall make an agreement to 
indemnify any person that publishes a map or chart for use in 
aeronautics from any part of a claim arising out of the depiction by the 
person on the map or chart of a defective or deficient flight procedure 
or airway if the flight procedure or airway was--
        (1) prescribed by the Administrator;
        (2) depicted accurately on the map or chart; and
        (3) not obviously defective or deficient.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1202.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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44721(a)(1)...........................  49 App.:1348(b) (1st sentence    Aug. 2
3, 1958, Pub. L. 85-726, Sec.
                                         cl. (3)).                        307(b
) (1st sentence cl. (3)), 72
                                                                          Stat.
 750.
                                        49 App.:1655(c)(1).              Oct. 1
5, 1966, Pub. L. 89-670, Sec.
                                                                          6(c)(
1), 80 Stat. 938; Jan. 12, 1983,
                                                                          Pub. 
L. 97-449, Sec.  7(b), 96 Stat.
                                                                          2444.
44721(a)(2)...........................  49 App.:1348(b) (3d, last        Aug. 2
3, 1958, Pub. L. 85-726, 72 Stat.
                                         sentences).                      749, 
Sec.  307(b) (3d, last
                                                                          sente
nces); added Oct. 31, 1992, Pub.
                                                                          L. 10
2-581, Sec.  125, 106 Stat. 4885.
44721(b)..............................  49 App.:1519.                    Aug. 2
3, 1958, Pub. L. 85-726, 72 Stat.
                                                                          731, 
Sec.  1118; added Dec. 19, 1985,
                                                                          Pub. 
L. 99-190, Sec.  328(a), 99 Stat.
                                                                          1289.
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    In subsection (a)(1), the word ``Administrator'' in section 307(b) 
of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-726, 72 Stat. 750) is 
retained on authority of 49:106(g). The words ``within the limits of 
available appropriations made by the Congress'' are omitted as surplus. 
The words ``departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United 
States Government'' are substituted for ``existing agencies of the 
Government'' for consistency in the revised title and with other titles 
of the United States Code.
    In subsection (b), before clause (1), the words ``Notwithstanding 
the provisions of section 1341 of title 31 or any other provision of 
law'' are omitted as surplus.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 106, 46301 of this title.
