33 CFR § 90.5 - Lights for moored vessels.

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title: "33 CFR § 90.5 - Lights for moored vessels."
title_number: 33
title_name: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
section_number: "90.5"
section_name: "Lights for moored vessels."
chapter_name: "COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY"
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subchapter_name: "INLAND NAVIGATION RULES"
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part_name: "INLAND RULES: INTERPRETATIVE RULES"
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authority: "33 U.S.C. 2071; 49 CFR 1.46(n)(14)."
regulatory_source: "CGD 83-011, 48 FR 51622, Nov. 10, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
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# 90.5 Lights for moored vessels.

A *vessel at anchor* includes a vessel made fast to one or more mooring buoys or other similar device attached to the ocean floor. Such vessels may be lighted as a vessel at anchor in accordance with Rule 30, or may be lighted on the corners in accordance with 33 CFR 88.30(h) through (l).

[CGD 94-011, 63 FR 5732, Feb. 4, 1998, as amended by USCG-2015-0433, 80 FR 44281, July 27, 2015]