[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: 33CFR5.01]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

 

PART 5_COAST GUARD AUXILIARY--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 5.01  Definitions.









Sec.

5.01 Definitions.

5.03 Purpose.

5.05 Organization.

5.07 Administration.

5.09 Eligibility for membership.

5.11 Membership in military organizations.

5.13 Application for membership.

5.15 Admission to membership.

5.17 Disenrollment.

5.19 Training.

5.21 Ranks, titles, designations, or grades.

5.23 Advancement.

5.25 Honorary members.

5.27 Assignment to specific duties.

5.29 Assignment to duty on a motorboat, yacht, aircraft, or radio 

          station.

5.31 Power and authority.

5.33 Training, examination, and assignment.

5.35 Use of facilities.

5.37 Offer of facilities.

5.39 Acceptance of facilities.

5.41 Emergencies.

5.43 Public vessels, aircraft, and radio stations.

5.45 Return of facility.

5.47 Auxiliary ensign.

5.48 Auxiliary Patrol Boat ensign.

5.49 Reimbursement for expenses.

5.55 Compensation.

5.57 Traveling expenses and per diem.

5.59 Medical treatment and hospitalization.

5.61 Uniforms.

5.63 Insignia.

5.65 Medals.

5.69 Limitations of rights, privileges, and benefits.



    Authority: 14 U.S.C. 633, 892; Pub. L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135; 

Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.



    Source: CGFR 48-64, 13 FR 8393, Dec. 28, 1948, unless otherwise 

noted.





    Certain terms used in this part are defined as follows:

    (a) Act means the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, as 

amended, and recodified by Act of August 4, 1949, as 14 U.S.C. 821 

through 832.

    (b) Auxiliary means the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary 

established pursuant to the Act.

    (c) Commandant means the Commandant of the United States Coast 

Guard.

    (d) Member means any person who is a member of the Auxiliary.

    (e) Vessel means a motorboat or yacht.

    (f) Motorboat means any documented or numbered vessel propelled by 

machinery, not more than 65 feet in length measured end to end over the 

deck excluding sheer.

    (g) Yacht means either (1) any documented or numbered vessel used 

exclusively for pleasure, or (2) any sailboat used exclusively for 

pleasure over 16 feet in length measured from end to end over the deck 

excluding sheer.

    (h) Radio station means any equipment (including a building which 

houses such equipment) the use of which to transmit communications by 

radio is authorized pursuant to law.

    (i) Aircraft means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, 

used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air.

    (j) Secretary means the Secretary of Homeland Security when the 

Coast Guard operates in the Department of Homeland Security or the 

Secretary of the Navy when the Coast Guard operates as part of the Navy.

    (k) Facility or facilities means a vessel, aircraft, and/or radio 

station.



[CGFR 48-64, 13 FR 8393, Dec. 28, 1948, as amended by CGFR 59-58, 24 FR 

10717, Dec. 25, 1959; CGD 96-026, 61 FR 33662, June 28, 1996; USCG-2003-

14505, 68 FR 9534, Feb. 28, 2003]