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

§ 284

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

When steam vessels will inevitably or necessarily cross so near that by continuing their respective courses, there would be a risk of collision, each shall give right rudder, so as always to pass on the port side of the other.

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

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