33 USC § 1207 - Regulations

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s1207"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "33 USC § 1207 - Regulations"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "1207"
section_name: "Regulations"
chapter_number: 24
chapter_name: "VESSEL BRIDGE-TO-BRIDGE COMMUNICATION"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 92–63, § 8, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)"
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# § 1207. Regulations

**(a)** **Operating and technical conditions and characteristics; frequencies, emission, and power of radiotelephone equipment** The Federal Communications Commission shall, after consultation with other cognizant agencies, prescribe regulations necessary to specify operating and technical conditions and characteristics including frequencies, emission, and power of radiotelephone equipment required under this chapter.

**(b)** **Enforcement** The Secretary shall, subject to the concurrence of the Federal Communications Commission, prescribe regulations for the enforcement of this chapter.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 92–63, § 8, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective , or six months after the promulgation of regulations which would implement its provisions, whichever is later, see , set out as a note under .