[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR3.25-1]

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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
          CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 3--COAST GUARD AREAS, DISTRICTS, MARINE INSPECTION ZONES, AND CAPTAIN OF THE PORT ZONES--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart 3.25--Fifth Coast Guard District
 
Sec. 3.25-1  Fifth district.


    (a) The District Office is in Portsmouth, Va.
    (b) The Fifth Coast Guard District is comprised of: North Carolina; 
Virginia; District of Columbia; Maryland; Delaware; that part of 
Pennsylvania east of a line drawn along 78 deg.55' W. longitude south to 
41 deg.00' N. latitude, thence west to 79 deg.00' W. longitude, and 
thence south to the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary; that portion of New 
Jersey that lies south and west of a line drawn from the New Jersey 
shoreline at 40 deg.18' N. latitude (just south of the Shrewsbury 
River), thence westward to 40 deg.18' N. latitude, 74 deg.30.5' W. 
longitude, thence north-northwesterly to the junction of the New York, 
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania boundaries at Tristate; and the ocean area 
encompassed by a line bearing 122 deg.T from the coastal end of the 
First and Fifth Districts' land boundary at the intersection of the New 
Jersey shoreline and 40 deg.18' N. latitude (just south of the 
Shrewsbury River) to the southernmost point in the First Coast Guard 
District (a point located at approximately 37 deg. N. latitude, 
67 deg.13' W. longitude); thence along a line bearing 219 deg.T to the 
point of intersection with the ocean boundary between the Fifth and 
Seventh Coast Guard Districts, which is defined as a line bearing 
122 deg.T from the coastal end of the Fifth and Seventh Districts' land 
boundary at the shoreline at the North Carolina-South Carolina border, 
point located at approximately 30 deg.55' N. 73 deg. W.; thence 
northwesterly along this line to the coast.

[CGFR 61-40, 26 FR 10347, Nov. 3, 1961, as amended by CGD 87-008, 52 FR 
13084, Apr. 21, 1987; 52 FR 16480, May 5, 1987; CGD 87-008b, 52 FR 
25217, July 6, 1987; CGD 96-016, 61 FR 21959, May 13, 1996]