[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR173.11]

[Page 878]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY(CONTINUED)
 
PART 173_VESSEL NUMBERING AND CASUALTY ANDACCIDENT REPORTING--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart B_Numbering
 
Sec. 173.11  Applicability.


    This subpart applies to each vessel equipped with 
propulsionmachinery of any type used on waters subject to the 
jurisdiction ofthe United States and on the high seas beyond the 
territorial seas forvessels owned in the United States except:
    (a) Foreign vessels temporarily using waters subject to 
U.S.jurisdiction;
    (b) Military or public vessels of the United States, 
exceptrecreational-type public vessels;
    (c) A vessel whose owner is a State or subdivision thereof, whichis 
used principally for governmental purposes, and which is 
clearlyidentifiable as such;
    (d) Ships' lifeboats;
    (e) A vessel which has or is required to have a valid marinedocument 
as a vessel of the United States.