Volume 76 · 1345
Private Law 87–515
To permit the vessel Lucky Linda to be documented for limited use in the coastwise trade.
Approved August 24, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To permit the vessel Lucky Linda to be documented for limited use in the coastwise trade.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding section 4132 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (46 U.S.C. 11), and section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act,
1920, as amended (46 U.S.C. 883), the vessel Lucky Linda, built in Nova Scotia and owned by Martin Soderlund, Northport, New York, shall be admitted to American registry and documented under the laws of the United States, and shall be entitled to engage in the coastwise trade to the extent necessary to permit the carriage of passengers, whether for hire or otherwise, not to exceed twenty miles to sea from a harbor of safe refuge between Block Island, Rhode Island, and Fire Island Inlet, New York, so long as such vessel is from the date of enactment of this Act continuously owned by a citizen of the United States.
Sec. 2.
As used in this Act the term “citizen of the United States” includes corporations, partnerships, and associations, but only those which are citizens of the United States within the meaning of section 2
of the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended.
Approved August 24, 1962.