Regulations last checked for updates: Oct 18, 2024

Title 46 - Shipping last revised: Oct 15, 2024
§ 44.01-20 - New and existing vessels; special service.

(a) A new vessel marked with load lines for special service on a coastwise or inter-island voyage is a vessel whose keel was laid on or after September 28, 1937. An existing vessel is one whose keel was laid before that date.

authority: 46 U.S.C. 5101-5116; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1
source: CGFR 65-50, 30 FR 16755, Dec. 30, 1965, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 46 CFR 44.01-20