[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR46.05-15]

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                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 46_SUBDIVISION LOAD LINES FOR PASSENGER VESSELS--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart 46.05_Definitions Used in This Part
 
Sec. 46.05-15  Coastwise voyages.

    (a) A coastwise voyage by sea, for the purpose of marking passenger 
vessels with subdivision load lines, is a voyage in which a vessel in 
the usual course of her employment proceeds from one port or place in 
the United States to another port or place in the United States or from 
a port or place in a possession to another port or place in the same 
possession, and passes outside the line dividing inland waters from the 
high seas (a voyage exclusively on the Great Lakes excepted), as well as 
a voyage in which a vessel proceeds from

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a port or place in the United States or her possessions and passes 
outside the line dividing inland waters from the high seas and navigates 
on the high seas, and then returns to the same port or place.