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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 85. Aids to maritime navigation; penalty
The Secretary shall prescribe and enforce necessary and
reasonable rules and regulations, for the protection of marine
navigation, relative to the establishment, maintenance, and
operation of lights and other signals on fixed and floating
structures in or over waters subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States and in the high seas for structures owned or operated
by persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Any
owner or operator of such a structure, excluding an agency of the
United States, who violates any of the rules or regulations
prescribed hereunder, commits a misdemeanor and shall be punished,
upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not exceeding $100 for each
day which such violation continues.
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