Volume 96 · 2617
Private Law 97–13
To revitalize the pleasure cruise industry by clarifying and waiving certain restrictions in the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, and the Merchant Manne Act, 1920, to permit the entry of the steamship vessel Oceanic Constitution into the trade.
Approved March 2, 1982
Statutory text
An Act
To revitalize the pleasure cruise industry by clarifying and waiving certain restrictions in the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, and the Merchant Manne Act, 1920, to permit the entry of the steamship vessel Oceanic Constitution into the trade.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding
Oceanic Constitution.
U.S. Coast Guard documentation of vessel.
the provisions of section 506 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1156), section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46 U.S.C. 883), and any other provision of law, the Secretary of the department in which the United States Coast Guard is operating shall cause the vessel Oceanic Constitution (official Coast Guard numbered 262027) to be documented as a vessel of the United States entitled to engage in the coastwise trade, so long as—
the vessel is in compliance with all other requirements for vessels engaging in the coastwise trade,
any rebuilding of the vessel or repair work constituting a rebuilding, accomplished after enactment of this Act, shall be effected within the United States, its territories (not including trust territories), or its possessions,
the vessel is owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States as defined in the applicable laws prescribing the qualifications for vessels to engage in the coastwise trade, and
for hire carriage in such trade is limited to passengers, their accompanying baggage, and one thousand measurement tons of cargo, of forty cubic feet each, per annum in any coast-wise trade: Provided, That for hire carriage of cargo in excess of the aforesaid one thousand tons shall be unlawful.
Sec. 2.
The vessel shall lose the right conferred by section 1 of this Act to engage in the coastwise trade if, during the first twelve months of operation as a vessel of the United States, it operates on a route in the coastwise trade other than the intra-Hawaiian Islands trade.
Approved March 2, 1982.