Title 46, ShippingRelease 119-102
§5111 Providing Loading Information
Title 46 › Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen › Part C — Load Lines of Vessels › CHAPTER 51 — LOAD LINES › § 5111
Summary
The Secretary can make rules that require a vessel’s owner, charterer, managing operator, and agent to give the master loading information. That must include how weight is arranged, the ship’s stability, and its margin of strength, and it must be given in a language the master understands.
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Title 46, §5111
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The Secretary may prescribe regulations requiring the owner, charterer, managing operator, and agent of a vessel to provide loading information (including information on loading distribution, stability, and margin of strength) to the master or individual in charge of the vessel in a language the master or individual understands.
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section 5111 authorizes the Secretary to prescribe
Regulations
requiring that the master of a vessel be provided with loading and stability information for the vessel that the master understands.
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Citation
46 U.S.C. § 5111
Title 46, Shipping
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102