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Volume 83

Public Law 91–154

To eliminate requirements for disclosure of construction details on passenger vessels meeting prescribed safety standards, and for other purposes.

Approved December 24, 1969

Statutory text

AN ACT

To eliminate requirements for disclosure of construction details on passenger vessels meeting prescribed safety standards, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 4400 of

Passenger vessels.

Construction detail disclosure, elimination.

the Revised Statutes, as amended (46 U.S.C. 362), is amended—

(1)

by inserting in the second sentence of subsection (b) between the words “information” and “as” the following: “, and shall specify the registry of any vessel named,”, and

(2)

by inserting between the second and third sentences of subsection (b) thereof the following new sentence: “The passenger notification and promotional or advertising literature inclusions required by this subsection, except the inclusion of the country of registry of the vessel, do not apply to voyages by vessels meeting the safety standards prescribed m subsection (c) of this section.”.

Approved December 24, 1969.

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