Title 46 › Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen › Part J — Measurement of Vessels › CHAPTER 141 — GENERAL › § 14101
Defines key words used in this part. Convention: the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969. Existing vessel: a ship whose keel was laid or that was at a similar stage of construction before July 18, 1982. Great Lakes: the Great Lakes themselves and the part of the St. Lawrence River west of two lines — a rhumb line from Cap des Rosiers to West Point on Anticosti Island, and, north of Anticosti Island, the meridian at 63 degrees west. Vessel that engages on a foreign voyage: a ship that arrives from a foreign country to the U.S., departs the U.S. for a foreign country, travels between two places outside the U.S., or moves between a U.S. territory or possession and another U.S. place not in that territory.
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46 U.S.C. § 14101
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