Federal

Title 46 — Shipping

1,032 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 101 — Agency
• § 10101 — Definitions
• § 10102 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–206, title IV, § 422(c)(1) , Dec. 20, 1993 , 107 Stat. 2439 ]
• § 10103 — Reports
• § 10104 — Requirement to report sexual offenses
• § 10105 — Reports to Congress
• § 102 — Barge
• § 103 — Boundary Line
• § 10301 — Application
• § 10302 — Shipping articles agreements
• § 10303 — Provisions
• § 10304 — Form of agreement
• § 10305 — Manner of signing agreement
• § 10306 — Exhibiting merchant mariners’ documents
• § 10307 — Posting agreements
• § 10308 — Foreign engagements
• § 10309 — Engaging seamen to replace those lost by desertion or casualty
• § 10310 — Discharge
• § 10311 — Certificates of discharge
• § 10312 — Settlements on discharge
• § 10313 — Wages
• § 10314 — Advances
• § 10315 — Allotments
• § 10316 — Trusts
• § 10317 — Loss of lien and right to wages
• § 10318 — Wages on discharge in foreign ports
• § 10319 — Costs of a criminal conviction
• § 10320 — Records of seamen
• § 10321 — General penalty
• § 104 — Citizen of the United States
• § 105 — Consular officer
• § 10501 — Application
• § 10502 — Shipping articles agreements
• § 10503 — Exhibiting merchant mariners’ documents
• § 10504 — Wages
• § 10505 — Advances
• § 10506 — Trusts
• § 10507 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–206, title IV, § 415(a) , Dec. 20, 1993 , 107 Stat. 2438 ]
• § 10508 — General penalties
• § 10509 — Penalty for failing to begin voyage
• § 106 — Documented vessel
• § 10601 — Fishing agreements
• § 10602 — Recovery of wages and shares of fish under agreement
• § 10603 — Seaman’s duty to notify employer regarding illness, disability, and injury
• § 107 — Exclusive economic zone
• § 10701 — Application
• § 10702 — Duties of masters
• § 10703 — Procedures of masters
• § 10704 — Duties of consular officers
• § 10705 — Disposition of money, property, and wages by consular officers
• § 10706 — Seamen dying in the United States
• § 10707 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–206, title IV, § 420(a) , Dec. 20, 1993 , 107 Stat. 2438 ]
• § 10708 — Sale of property
• § 10709 — Distribution
• § 10710 — Unclaimed money, property, and wages
• § 10711 — Penalties
• § 108 — Fisheries
• § 109 — Foreign commerce or trade
• § 10901 — Application
• § 10902 — Complaints of unfitness
• § 10903 — Proceedings on examination of vessel
• § 10904 — Refusal to proceed
• § 10905 — Complaints in foreign ports
• § 10906 — Discharge of crew for unsuitability
• § 10907 — Permission to make complaint
• § 10908 — Penalty for sending unseaworthy vessel to sea
• § 110 — Foreign vessel
• § 111 — Numbered vessel
• § 11101 — Accommodations for seamen
• § 11102 — Medicine chests
• § 11103 — Slop chests
• § 11104 — Destitute seamen
• § 11105 — Wages on discharge when vessel sold
• § 11106 — Wages on justifiable complaint of seamen
• § 11107 — Unlawful engagements void
• § 11108 — Taxes
• § 11109 — Attachment of wages
• § 11110 — Seamen’s clothing
• § 11111 — Limit on amount recoverable on voyage
• § 11112 — Master’s lien for wages
• § 11113 — Treatment of abandoned seafarers
• § 112 — State
• § 11201 — Eligibility for veterans’ burial and cemetery benefits
• § 11202 — Qualified service
• § 11203 — Documentation of qualified service
• § 11204 — Processing fees
• § 113 — Undocumented
• § 11301 — Logbook and entry requirements
• § 11302 — Manner of making entries
• § 11303 — Penalties
• § 11304 — Additional logbook and entry requirements
• § 114 — United States
• § 115 — Vessel
• § 11501 — Penalties for specified offenses
• § 11502 — Entry of offenses in logbook
• § 11503 — Duties of consular officers related to insubordination
• § 11504 — Enforcement of forfeitures
• § 11505 — Disposal of forfeitures
• § 11506 — Carrying sheath knives
• § 11507 — Surrender of offending officers
• § 116 — Vessel of the United States
• § 12101 — Definitions
• § 12102 — Vessels requiring documentation
• § 12103 — General eligibility requirements
• § 12104 — Applications for documentation
• § 12105 — Issuance of documentation
• § 12106 — Surrender of title and number
• § 12107 — Wrecked vessels
• § 12108 — Authority to extend duration of vessel certificates
• § 12111 — Registry endorsement
• § 12112 — Coastwise endorsement
• § 12113 — Fishery endorsement
• § 12114 — Recreational endorsement
• § 12115 — Temporary endorsement for vessels procured outside the United States
• § 12116 — Limited endorsements for Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands
• § 12117 — Oil spill response vessels
• § 12118 — Owners engaged primarily in manufacturing or mineral industry
• § 12119 — Owners engaged primarily in leasing or financing transactions
• § 12120 — Liquified gas tankers
• § 12121 — Small passenger vessels and uninspected passenger vessels
• § 12131 — Command of documented vessels
• § 12132 — Loss of coastwise trade privileges
• § 12133 — Duty to carry certificate on vessel and allow examination
• § 12134 — Evidentiary uses of documentation
• § 12135 — Invalidation of certificates of documentation
• § 12136 — Surrender of certificates of documentation
• § 12137 — Recording of vessels built in the United States
• § 12138 — List of documented vessels
• § 12139 — Reports
• § 12140 — Investigations by Secretary
• § 12151 — Penalties
• § 12152 — Denial or revocation of endorsement for non-payment of civil penalty
• § 12301 — Numbering vessels
• § 12302 — Standard numbering system
• § 12303 — Exemption from numbering requirements
• § 12304 — Certificates of numbers
• § 12305 — Displaying numbers
• § 12306 — Safety certificates
• § 12307 — Regulations on numbering and fees
• § 12308 — Providing vessel numbering and registration information
• § 12309 — Penalties
• § 12501 — Establishment of a vessel identification system
• § 12502 — Identification numbers, signal letters, and markings
• § 12503 — Information available to the system
• § 12504 — Information available from the system
• § 12505 — Fees
• § 12506 — Delegation of authority
• § 12507 — Penalties
• § 13101 — Definitions
• § 13102 — State recreational boating safety programs
• § 13103 — Program acceptance
• § 13104 — Allocations
• § 13105 — Availability of allocations
• § 13106 — Computation decisions about State amounts expended
• § 13107 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 13108 — Computing amounts allocated to States and State records requirements
• § 13109 — Consultation, cooperation, and regulation
• § 13110 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–282, title VI, § 601(c)(4)(A) , Dec. 4, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4289 ]
• § 14101 — Definitions
• § 14102 — Repealed. Pub. L. 101–595, title VI, § 603(12)(A) , Nov. 16, 1990 , 104 Stat. 2993 ]
• § 14103 — Delegation of authority
• § 14104 — Measurement to determine application of a law
• § 14301 — Application
• § 14302 — Measurement
• § 14303 — Tonnage Certificate
• § 14304 — Remeasurement
• § 14305 — Optional regulatory measurement
• § 14306 — Reciprocity for foreign vessels
• § 14307 — Inspection of foreign vessels
• § 14501 — Application
• § 14502 — Measurement
• § 14503 — Certificate of measurement
• § 14504 — Remeasurement
• § 14511 — Application
• § 14512 — Standard tonnage measurement
• § 14513 — Dual tonnage measurement
• § 14514 — Reciprocity for foreign vessels
• § 14521 — Application
• § 14522 — Measurement
• § 14701 — General violation
• § 14702 — False statements
• § 15101 — National Chemical Transportation Safety Advisory Committee
• § 15102 — National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee
• § 15103 — National Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee
• § 15104 — National Merchant Mariner Medical Advisory Committee
• § 15105 — National Boating Safety Advisory Committee
• § 15106 — National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee
• § 15107 — National Navigation Safety Advisory Committee
• § 15108 — National Towing Safety Advisory Committee
• § 15109 — Administration
• § 2101 — General definitions
• § 2102 — Limited definitions
• § 2103 — Superintendence of the merchant marine
• § 2104 — Delegation
• § 2105 — Report
• § 2106 — Liability in rem
• § 2107 — Civil penalty procedures
• § 2108 — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–304, § 15(5) , Oct. 6, 2006 , 120 Stat. 1702 ]
• § 2109 — Public vessels
• § 2110 — Fees