Regulations last checked for updates: Jun 18, 2024

Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters last revised: Jun 12, 2024
§ 117.21 - Signalling for an opened drawbridge.

When a vessel approaches a drawbridge with the draw in the open position, the vessel shall give the opening signal. If no acknowledgment is received within 30 seconds, the vessel may proceed, with caution, through the open draw.

authority: 33 U.S.C. 499; 33 CFR 1.05-1; and DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.3
source: CGD 82-025, 49 FR 17452, Apr. 24, 1984, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 33 CFR 117.21