[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR91.1]

[Page 179]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICSAND SPACE
 
CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
                               (CONTINUED)
 
PART 91--GENERAL OPERATING AND FLIGHT RULES--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 91.1  Applicability.

    Source: Docket No. 18334, 54 FR 34292, Aug. 18, 1989, unless 
otherwise noted.


    (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section and 
Secs. 91.701 and 91.703, this part prescribes rules governing the 
operation of aircraft (other than moored balloons, kites, unmanned 
rockets, and unmanned free balloons, which are governed by part 101 of 
this chapter, and ultralight vehicles operated in accordance with part 
103 of this chapter) within the United States, including the waters 
within 3 nautical miles of the U.S. coast.
    (b) Each person operating an aircraft in the airspace overlying the 
waters between 3 and 12 nautical miles from the coast of the United 
States shall comply with Secs. 91.1 through 91.21; Secs. 91.101 through 
91.143; Secs. 91.151 through 91.159; Secs. 91.167 through 91.193; 
Sec. 91.203; Sec. 91.205; Secs. 91.209 through 91.217; Sec. 91.221; 
Secs. 91.303 through 91.319; Sec. 91.323; Sec. 91.605; Sec. 91.609; 
Secs. 91.703 through 91.715; and 91.903.
    (c) This part applies to each person on board an aircraft being 
operated under this part, unless otherwise specified.

[Doc. No. 18334, 54 FR 34292, Aug. 18, 1989, as amended by Amdt. 91-257, 
64 FR 1079, Jan. 7, 1999]