[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR5.521]

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                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 5_MARINE INVESTIGATION REGULATIONS_PERSONNEL ACTION--Table of
 
                           Subpart H_Hearings
 
Sec. 5.521  Verification of license, certificate or document.

    (a) The Administrative Law Judge shall require the respondent to 
produce and present at the opening of the hearing, and on each day the 
hearing is in session thereafter, all valid licenses, certificates, and/
or documents issued by the Coast Guard to the respondent. In the event 
that the respondent alleges that such license, certificate or document 
has been lost, misplaced, stolen, destroyed, or is otherwise beyond his 
ability to produce, the respondent shall execute a lost document 
affidavit (Form CG-4363). The Administrative Law Judge shall warn the 
respondent that a willful misstatement of any material item in such 
affidavit is punishable as a violation of a Federal criminal statute. 
(See 18 U.S.C. 1001).
    (b) When a hearing is continued or delayed, the Administrative Law 
Judge returns the license, certificate, or document to the respondent: 
unless a prima facie case has been established that the respondent 
committed an act or offense which shows that the respondent's service on 
a vessel would constitute a definite danger to public health, interest 
or safety at sea.

[CGD82-002, 50 FR 32184, Aug. 9, 1985, as amended by CGD 97-057, 62 FR 
51042, Sept. 30, 1997]