33 USC § 475 - Regulations for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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title: "33 USC § 475 - Regulations for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "475"
section_name: "Regulations for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii"
chapter_number: 10
chapter_name: "ANCHORAGE GROUNDS AND HARBOR REGULATIONS GENERALLY"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Aug. 22, 1912, ch. 335, 37 Stat. 341.)"
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# § 475. Regulations for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

For the proper control, protection, and defense of the naval station, harbor, and entrance channel at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, empowered, and directed to adopt and prescribe suitable rules and regulations governing the navigation, movement, and anchorage of vessels of whatsoever character in the waters of Pearl Harbor, island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, and in the entrance channel to said harbor, and to take all necessary measures for the proper enforcement of such rules and regulations.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 22, 1912, ch. 335, 37 Stat. 341.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from the Naval Appropriation Act for 1913.

## Executive Documents

### Admission of Hawaii as State

Admission of Hawaii into the Union was accomplished , on issuance of Proc. No. 3309, , 24 F.R. 6868, 73 Stat. c74, as required by sections 1 and 7(c) of , , , set out as notes preceding , Territories and Insular Possessions.