CFR > Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters > CHAPTER I—COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY > SUBCHAPTER E—INLAND NAVIGATION RULES (parts 83 to 90) > PART 83—RULES > SUBPART B—Steering and Sailing Rules (§83.04 to §83.19) > 83.15—Crossing situation (Rule 15).

83.15—Crossing situation (Rule 15).

(a) Vessel which must keep out of the other vessel's way. When two power-driven vessels are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her starboard side shall keep out of the way and shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel.
(b) Vessels crossing river. Notwithstanding paragraph (a), on the Great Lakes, Western Rivers, or water specified by the Secretary, a power-driven vessel crossing a river shall keep out of the way of a power-driven vessel ascending or descending the river.