[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
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[CITE: 46CFR7.1]

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                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 7_BOUNDARY LINES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 7.1  General purpose of boundary lines.

    The lines in this part delineate the application of the following 
U.S. statutes: 33 U.S.C. 152 relating to the length of towing hawsers; 
33 U.S.C. 1201 et seq., the Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act; 
46 U.S.C. 5102(b)(6), which exempt from load line requirements certain 
vessels on domestic voyages; 46 U.S.C. 3301(6) requiring the inspection 
of seagoing barges which are defined in 46 U.S.C. 2101(32); 46 U.S.C. 
3301(7) requiring the inspection of seagoing motor vessels which are 
defined in 46 U.S.C. 2101(33); 46 U.S.C. 3302(d) which exempts from 
inspection requirements certain vessels under 150 gross tons that 
operate within the waters of southeastern Alaska and the State of 
Washington; and 46 U.S.C. 8304, ``Implementing the Officers' Competency 
Certificates Convention, 1936.''

[CGD 81-058, 50 FR 25230, June 18, 1985, as amended by CGD 95-028, 62 FR 
51195, Sept. 30, 1997; USCG-1998-4442, 63 FR 52188, Sept. 30, 1998]