DIVISION 2. NAVIGATION 240-310›CHAPTER 3. Losses 280-294›ARTICLE 1. Navigation Rules 280-285

§ 283

California Harbors and Navigation Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

A steam vessel navigating a narrow channel shall, whenever it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fairway or mid-channel which lies on its starboard side, and a steam vessel when passing another in such a channel, shall always leave the other upon the port side.

(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)

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