33 USC § 453 - Regulations for navigation of Ambrose Channel; exclusion of tows and sailing vessels

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s453"
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title: "33 USC § 453 - Regulations for navigation of Ambrose Channel; exclusion of tows and sailing vessels"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "453"
section_name: "Regulations for navigation of Ambrose Channel; exclusion of tows and sailing vessels"
chapter_number: 9
chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "NEW YORK HARBOR, HARBOR OF HAMPTON ROADS, AND HARBOR OF BALTIMORE"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 144, § 1, 37 Stat. 803; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)"
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# § 453. Regulations for navigation of Ambrose Channel; exclusion of tows and sailing vessels

The Secretary of the Army is authorized to make such rules and regulations for the navigation of Ambrose Channel as he may deem necessary or expedient to insure its safe use in all kinds of weather, night and day, for all vessels under control and running under their own power, and to this end he may, in his discretion, forbid its use to tows of every description and to sailing vessels.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 144, § 1, 37 Stat. 803; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of , , which comprises this subchapter.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of , . Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of , . Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.