Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 3.djvu/811

 PUBLIC LAW 96-594—DEC. 24, 1980

94 STAT. 3455

(2) except in the case of a pleasure vessel license, conclusive evidence of qualification to be employed in a specified trade; and (3) not conclusive evidence of ownership in any proceeding in which ownership is in issue. SEC. 110. CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION; REGISTRY.

46 USC 65h.

(a) A registry may be issued for any vessel that is eligible for documentation. Ob) A vessel for which a registry is issued may be employed in foreign trade or trade with Guam, American Samoa, Wake, Midway, or Kingman Reef, (c) Upon application of the owner of any vessel that qualifies for a coastwise license under section 111 of this title, a Great Lakes license under section 112 of this title, or a fishery license under section 113 of this title, the Secretary may issue a registry appropriately endorsed authorizing the vessel to be employed in the coastwise trade, the Great Lakes trade, or the fisheries, as the case may be. (d) Except as provided in sections 111, 112, and 113 of this title, a foreign built vessel registered pursuant to this section may not engage in the coastwise trade, the Great Lakes trade, or the fisheries. SEC. 111. CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION: COASTWISE LICENSE.

46 USC 65i.

(a) A coastwise license or, as provided in section 110(c) of this title, an appropriately endorsed registry, may be issued for any vessel that— (1) is eligible for documentation; (2) was built in the United States (or in the case of a vessel not built in the United States, has been captured in war by citizens of the United States and lawfully condemned as prize, has been adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of the United States, or has qualified for documentation under section 4136 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (46 U.S.C. 14)); and (3) otherwise qualifies under laws of the United States to be employed in the coastwise trade. (b) Only a vessel for which a coastwise license or an appropriately endorsed registry is issued may, subject to the laws of the United States regulating those trades, be employed in— (1) the coastwise trade; and (2) the fisheries. SEC. 112. CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION: GREAT LAKES LICENSE.

(a) A Great Lakes license, or, as provided in section 110(c) of this title, an appropriately endorsed registry, may be issued for any vessel that— (1) is eligible for documentation; (2) was built in the United States (or in the case of a vessel not built in the United States, has been captured in war by citizens of the United States and lawfully condemned as prize, has been adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of the United States, or has qualified for documentation under section 4136 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (46 U.S.C. 14)); and (3) otherwise qualifies under the laws of the United States to be employed in the coastwise trade. (b) Only a vessel for which a Great Lakes license or an appropriately endorsed registry is issued may, on the Great Lakes and their

46 USC 65j.

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