Volume 52 · 754
Public Law 75–467
To except yachts, tugs, towboats, and unrigged vessels from certain provisions of the Act of June 25, 1936, as amended.
Approved June 16, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To except yachts, tugs, towboats, and unrigged vessels from certain provisions of the Act of June 25, 1936, as amended.
Be it, enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the provisions
Yachts, tugs, unrigged vessels, etc.
Manning of certain merchant vessels by certificated personnel; exceptions.
46 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 672.
of section 1 of the Act of Congress approved June 25, 1936, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. II, title 46, sec. 643), requiring the manning of certain merchant vessels by persons holding certificates of service or efficiency issued by the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation shall not apply as to unrigged vessels, except seagoing barges, and that, insofar as said provisions apply to tugs and towboats, the said provisions are hereby modified as follows:
Able seamen shall not be required in the deck crew of tugs
Tugs and towboats.
Able seamen In deck crew.
and towboats on the bays and sounds connected directly with the seas, and every person may be rated an able seaman for the purpose of serving on tugs and towboats on the seas who is nineteen years of age and upwards and who has had at least eighteen months of service on deck at sea or on the Great Lakes or on the bays and sounds connected directly with the seas; and
Service and rating; requirements.
Service and rating at least equal to that of coal passer or wiper in the engine department of tugs and towboats operating on the seas or Great Lakes or on the bays and sounds connected directly with the seas shall be considered as meeting the requirement of subsection (e) of section 1 of said Act which requires that an applicant for rating under that subsection shall produce to the inspector of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation definite proof of at least six months’ service at sea in a rating at least equal to that of coal passer or wiper in the engine department of vessels required by said Act to have such certificated men.
Other provisions operative.
Nothing in this section shall restrict or modify any of the other provisions of section 1 of said Act which must be complied with before the certificates therein authorized can be granted.
Sec. 2.
That the provisions of section 4 of the Act aforesaid shall not apply to unrigged vessels except seagoing barges.
Sec. 3.
Provisions of section 4551 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, approved March 24, 1937 (Public, Numbered 25, Seventy-fifth Congress), shall not apply to unrigged vessels except seagoing barges.
Sec. 4.
That when used m this Act—
“Unrigged vessel.”
The term “unrigged vessel” means any vessel that is not self-propelled;
“Seagoing barge.”
The term “seagoing barge” means any barge which from its design and construction may be reasonably expected to encounter and ride out the ordinary perils of the seas and which in fact in the usual course of its operations passes outside the line dividing inland waters from the high seas, as defined in section 2 of the Act of
February 19, 1895, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 33, sec. 151).
Approved, June 16, 1938.