[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

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 HOMELAND SECURITY

 

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[min] W. longitude 

south to 41[deg]00[min] N. latitude, thence west to 79[deg]00[min] 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[min] N. latitude (just south of the 

Shrewsbury River), thence westward to 40[deg]18[min] N. latitude, 

74[deg]30.5[min] 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[min] 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[min] 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[min] 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]