[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: 46CFR46.10-30]

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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 46.10_Administration
 
Sec. 46.10-30  Subdivision load line certificates.

    (a) Passenger vessels engaged in foreign voyages by sea shall have 
their subdivision load lines certified on the safety certificate 
required by the International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea, 
1960. Safety certificates shall be issued by the Commandant, U.S. Coast 
Guard, for a period not to exceed one year. These vessels will also be 
provided with the load line certificate required by part 42 of this 
subchapter, the minimum freeboard shown thereon to be not less than the 
minimum freeboard corresponding to the principal passenger condition. 
The fact that they are subdivision load lines is to be noted on the load 
line certificate.
    (b) Passenger vessels engaged on coastwise voyages by sea or Great 
Lakes voyages shall have the position of their subdivision load lines 
recorded on a load line certificate in the form required by part 42 or 
part 45 of this subchapter. The fact that they are subdivision load 
lines is to be noted on the load line certificate.
    (c) A note shall be added to the load line certificate below the 
signature of the assigning--authority in the following form:

    The bulkhead deck used for determining the position of the 
subdivision load lines certified above is -------------------------- 
(here described bulkhead deck).

    (d) Annual inspections of passenger vessels shall be as required by 
Sec. Sec. 42.09-40 and 46.10-15 of this subchapter and renewal of 
passenger vessels' load line certificates shall be as required by 
Sec. Sec. 42.09-15 and 42.09-20.
    (e) Each new passenger vessel which receives its first load line 
certificate shall also be provided with a copy of the load line survey 
report as required by Sec. 42.09-1(c) or Sec. 45.01-30 of this 
subchapter.

[CGFR 65-50, 30 FR 16769, Dec. 30, 1965, as amended by CGFR 68-60, 33 FR 
10077, July 12, 1968; CGFR 68-126, 34 FR 9019, June 5, 1969; CGD 80-120, 
47 FR 5723, Feb. 8, 1982; CGD 88-070, 53 FR 34534, Sept. 7, 1988]

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