2011 US Code
Title 46 - Shipping
Subtitle V - Merchant Marine (§§ 50101 - 58109)
Part B - Merchant Marine Service (§§ 51101 - 52101)
Chapter 517 - OTHER SUPPORT FOR MERCHANT MARINE TRAINING (§§ 51701 - 51704)
Section 51704 - Training for maritime oil pollution prevention, response, and clean-up
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 46 - SHIPPING |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 46 - SHIPPING Subtitle V - Merchant Marine Part B - Merchant Marine Service CHAPTER 517 - OTHER SUPPORT FOR MERCHANT MARINE TRAINING Sec. 51704 - Training for maritime oil pollution prevention, response, and clean-up |
Contains | section 51704 |
Date | 2011 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 3, 2012 |
Positive Law | Yes |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 109-304, §8(b), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1583. |
Statutes at Large References | 104 Stat. 2998 120 Stat. 1583 |
Public Law References | Public Law 101-595, Public Law 109-304 |
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(1) The vessel shall be offered to the institution at a location selected by the Secretary.
(2) The institution shall use the vessel to train students and appropriate maritime industry personnel in oil spill prevention, response, clean-up, and related skills.
(3) The institution shall make the vessel and qualified students available to appropriate Federal, State, and local oil spill response authorities when there is a maritime oil spill.
(4) The institution may not sell, trade, charter, donate, scrap, or in any way alter or dispose of the vessel without prior approval of the Secretary.
(5) The institution may not use the vessel in competition with a privately-owned vessel documented under chapter 121 of this title or titled under the law of a State, unless necessary to carry out this section.
(6) When the institution can no longer use the vessel for its training program, the institution shall return the vessel to the Secretary. The Secretary shall take possession at the institution and thereafter may provide the vessel to another institution under this section or dispose of the vessel.
(Pub. L. 109–304, §8(b), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1583.)
Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
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51704(a) | 46 App.:1295d(c)(1). | June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title XIII, §1305(c), as added Pub. L. 101–595, title VII, §712, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 2998. |
51704(b) | 46 App.:1295d(c) (2)(A), (4). | |
51704(c) | 46 App.:1295d(c) (2)(B), (3). |
In subsection (c)(5), the words “or titled under the law of a State” are substituted for “documented under the laws of . . . any State” for consistency with the terminology in 46 U.S.C. 2101(46) (which is being moved to chapter 1 of the revised title) and 46 U.S.C. ch. 125.
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