[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR12.10-1]

[Page 219]
 
                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 12_CERTIFICATION OF SEAMEN--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart 12.10_Lifeboatman
 
Sec. 12.10-1  Certification required.


    Every person employed in a rating as lifeboatman on any United 
States vessel requiring certificated lifeboatmen shall produce a 
certificate as lifeboatman or merchant mariner's document endorsed as 
lifeboatman or able seaman to the shipping commissioner, United States 
collector or deputy collector of customs, or master before signing 
articles of agreement. No certificate of efficiency as lifeboatman is 
required of any person employed on any unrigged vessel, except on a 
seagoing barge and on a tank barge navigating waters other than rivers 
and/or canals.