Historical and Revision Notes

Revised section

Source section (U.S. Code)

10903(a), (b)

46:654

10903(c)

46:659

10903(d)

46:660

Section 10903 provides for marine surveyors appointed by a judge or justice of the peace to inspect a vessel on which a complaint of unfitness was made, for a judge or justice of the peace to judge the fitness based on the findings, and for the payment of costs of the inspection by the master or the crew. It also includes a penalty for noncompliance.