[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 33CFR401.28]

[Page 604]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER IV--SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY
          DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 401--SEAWAY REGULATIONS AND RULES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A--Regulations
 
Sec. 401.28  Speed limits.

    (a) The maximum speed over the bottom for a vessel of more than 12 m 
in overall length shall be regulated so as not to adversely affect other 
vessels or shore property, and in no event shall such a vessel 
proceeding in any area between the place set out in Column I of an item 
of Schedule II to this part and a place set out in Column II of that 
item exceed the speed set out in Column III or Column IV of that item, 
whichever speed is designated by the Corporation and the Manager in a 
Seaway Notice from time to time as being appropriate to existing water 
levels.
    (b) Where the Corporation or the Manager designate any speed less 
than the maximum speeds set out in Schedule II of this part, that speed 
shall be transmitted as transit instructions referred to in Sec. 401.27.
    (c) Every vessel under way shall proceed at a reasonable speed so as 
not to cause undue delay to other vessels.
    (d) Every vessel passing a moored vessel or equipment working in a 
canal shall proceed at a speed that will not endanger the moored vessel, 
the moored equipment or the occupants of either.

(68 Stat. 93-96, 33 U.S.C. 981-990, as amended and secs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 
12 and 13 of sec. 2 of Pub. L. 95-474, 92 Stat. 1471)

[39 FR 10900, Mar. 22, 1974, as amended at 47 FR 51122, Nov. 12, 1982; 
55 FR 48599, Nov. 21, 1990; 65 FR 52914, Aug. 31, 2000]