Volume 53 · 798
Public Law 76–168
To amend section 4498 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, relative to the renewal of licenses of vessels.
Approved June 2, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 4498 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, relative to the renewal of licenses of vessels.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 4498 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 496), is hereby amended to read as follows:
Withholding of license, etc., until certificate of inspection filed.
R. S. §§ 4399–4500.
“A register, enrollment, or license shall not be granted, or other papers be issued by any collector or other chief officer of customs to any vessel subject by law to inspection under this title (R. S. 4399–4500) until all the provisions of this title applicable to such vessel have been fully complied with and until the copy of the certificate of inspection required by this title for such vessel has been filed with
Proviso.
Renewals.
said collector or other chief officer of customs: Provided, That the license granted to any vessel, if presented to any collector of customs at any time within thirty calendar days prior to the date of expiration shown thereon, may be renewed by the endorsement by the collector of customs for a period of one year from the date of expiration shown on the license, if there be on file in the office of the collector at that time a copy of the certificate of inspection required by title LII of the Revised Statutes, which is in force on the date renewal is made.”
Approved, June 2, 1939.