Volume 95 · 1737
Private Law 97–12
To direct the Secretary of the department in which the United States Coast Guard is operating to cause the vessel Capt Tom to be documented as a vessel of the United States so as to be entitled to engage in the coastwise trade.
Approved December 29, 1981
Statutory text
An Act
To direct the Secretary of the department in which the United States Coast Guard is operating to cause the vessel Capt Tom to be documented as a vessel of the United States so as to be entitled to engage 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
Capt Tom and Yardarm Knot.
the provisions of section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (46 U.S.C. 883) or any other provision of law to the contrary, the
U.S. Coast Guard documentation of vessels.
Secretary of the department in which the United States Coast Guard is operating shall cause the vessels Capt Tom, owned by Mr. John W. Coston of Hampstead, North Carolina, and the Yardarm Knot, owned by Mr. Denton Sherry of Seattle, Washington, to be documented as vessels of the United States, upon compliance with the usual requirements, with the privilege of engaging in the coastwise trade and fishing so long as such vessels are owned by a citizen of the United States.
Approved December 29, 1981.