---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 945"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "945"
heading: "Assistance to film producers"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/945"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Establishment, Powers, Duties, and Administration"
  - "Chapter 9 — Administration"
  - "Subchapter II — Miscellaneous"
---

# §945. Assistance to film producers

- (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the [Secretary](/usc/14/105.md) determines that it is appropriate, and that it will not interfere with Coast Guard missions, the [Secretary](/usc/14/105.md) may conduct operations with Coast Guard vessels, aircraft, facilities, or personnel, in such a way as to give assistance to film producers. As used in this section, “film producers” includes commercial or noncommercial producers of material for cinema, television, or videotape.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/14/105.md) shall keep account of costs incurred as a result of providing assistance to film producers, not including costs which would otherwise be incurred in Coast Guard operations or training, or shall estimate such costs in advance, and such costs shall be paid to the [Secretary](/usc/14/105.md) by the film producers who request such assistance, on terms determined by the [Secretary](/usc/14/105.md). The [Secretary](/usc/14/105.md) may waive costs not exceeding $200 for one production, and may waive other costs related to noncommercial productions which the [Secretary](/usc/14/105.md) determines to be in the public interest. The [Secretary](/usc/14/105.md) shall reimburse the amounts collected under this section to the Coast Guard appropriation account under which the costs were incurred.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–448, § 29(a), Sept. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 1849, § 659; renumbered § 945, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 107(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4205.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 659 of this title as this section.