An Act to improve the aids to navigation services of the Coast Guard.
PL 89-662 (S.3715), enacted 10/14/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-662-OCT. 14, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
Public Law 89-662 
October 14, 1966 
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To improve the aids to navigation services of the CJoast Guard. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
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Coast Guard. 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 81 
Navigation aids. 
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01 title 14, United btates Code, is amended to read as tollows: 
"§ 81. Aids to navigation authorized 
"In order to aid navigation and to prevent disasters, collisions, and 
wrecks of vessels and aircraft, the Coast Guard may establish, main-
tain, and operate: 
"(1) aids to maritime navigation required to serve the needs 
of the armed forces or of the commerce of the United States; 
"(2) aids to air navigation required to serve the needs of the 
armed forces of the United States peculiar to warfare and pri-
marily of military concern as determined by the Secretary of 
Defense ot the Secretary of any department within the Depart-
ment of Defense and as requested by any of those officials; and 
" (3) electronic aids to navigation systems (a) required to serve 
the needs of the armed forces of the United States peculiar to war-
fare and primarily of military concern as determined by the 
Secretary of Defense or any department within the Department 
of Defense; or (b) required to serve the needs of the maritime 
commerce of the United States; or (c) required to serve the needs 
of the air commerce of the United States as requested by the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency. 
These aids to navigation other than electronic aids to navigation 
systems shall be established and operated only within the United 
States, the waters above the Continental Shelf, the territories and 
possessions of the United States, the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands, and beyond the territorial jurisdiction of the United States 
at places where naval or military bases of the United States are or 
may be located." 
SEO. 2. Section 82 of title 14, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
"§82. Cooperation with Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Agency 
"The Coast Guard, in establishing, maintaining, or operating any 
aids to air navigation herein provided, shall solicit the cooperation 
of the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency to the end that 
the personnel and facilities of the Federal Aviation Agency will be 
utilized to the fullest possible advantage. Before locating and operat-
ing any such aid on military or naval bases or regions, the consent of 
the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secre-
tary of the Air Force, as the case may be, shall first be obtained. No 
such aid shall be located within the territorial jurisdiction of any 
foreign country without the consent of the government thereof. Noth-
ing in this title shall be deemed to limit the authority granted by 
7 2 Stat. 731. 
tj^g Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (ch. 20 of title 49), or 
70A sta^^456; 
by the provlsions of sections 7392 and 7394 of title 10." 
Approved October 14, 1966.