10 USC § 452 - Pilot charts

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s452"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "10 USC § 452 - Pilot charts"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "452"
section_name: "Pilot charts"
chapter_number: 22
chapter_name: "NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "MAPS, CHARTS, AND GEOMATICS PRODUCTS"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 97–295, § 1(50)(C), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1299, § 2793; renumbered § 452 and amended Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XI, § 1112(b), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2682; Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title IX, § 921(d)(2)(A), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1568.)"
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# § 452. Pilot charts

**(a)** There shall be conspicuously printed on pilot charts prepared in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency the following: “Prepared from data furnished by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency of the Department of Defense and by the Department of Commerce, and published at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under the authority of the Secretary of Defense”.

**(b)** The Secretary of Commerce shall furnish to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, as quickly as possible, all meteorological information received by the Secretary that is necessary for, and of the character used in, preparing pilot charts.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 97–295, § 1(50)(C), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1299, § 2793; renumbered § 452 and amended Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XI, § 1112(b), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2682; Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title IX, § 921(d)(2)(A), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1568.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2793 | 10:7393. |  |

The words “Secretary of Defense” and “Defense Mapping Agency” are substituted for “Secretary of the Navy” and “United States Naval Oceanographic Office”, respectively, for consistency with 10:2791. The words “Secretary of Commerce” are substituted for “Weather Bureau of the Department of Commerce” to reflect the transfer of functions from the Weather Bureau to the Secretary of Commerce under Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1965 (eff. , ). The word “quickly” is substituted for “expeditiously” for consistency in title 10.

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 452 was renumbered .

### Amendments

2003— substituted “National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency” for “National Imagery and Mapping Agency” wherever appearing.

1996— renumbered  as this section and substituted “National Imagery and Mapping Agency” for “Defense Mapping Agency” wherever appearing.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , see , set out as a note under .