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46 U.S.C. § 115 — Vessel
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In this title, the term “vessel” has the meaning given that term in [section 3 of title 1](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title1-section3&num=0&edition=prelim).
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The word “vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.
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TITLE 46—SHIPPING
§ 110
merce or trade between a place in the United
States and a place in a foreign country.
(b) CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION FUNDS
AND CON-
STRUCTION-DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDIES.—In the con-
text of capital construction funds under chapter
535 of this title, and in the context of construc-
tion-differential subsidies under title V of the
Merchant Marine Act, 1936, the terms ‘‘foreign
commerce’’ and ‘‘foreign trade’’ also include, in
the case of liquid and dry bulk cargo carrying
services, trading between foreign ports in ac-
cordance with normal commercial bulk shipping
practices in a manner that will permit bulk ves-
sels of the United States to compete freely with
foreign bulk vessels in their operation or com-
petition for charters, subject to regulations pre-
scribed by the Secretary of Transportation.
(Pub. L. 109–304, § 4, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1487.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Revised
Section
Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
109 .............
46 App.:1244(a).
June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title
IX, § 905(a), 49 Stat. 2016;
June 23, 1938, ch. 600,
§ 39(a), 52 Stat. 964; Pub. L.
91–469, § 28, Oct. 21, 1970, 84
Stat. 1034; Pub. L. 92–402,
§ 2, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat.
617;
Pub.
L.
97–31,
§ 12(133)(A), Aug. 6, 1981, 95
Stat. 165.
In subsection (a), the words ‘‘its Territories or posses-
sions, or the District of Columbia’’ are omitted because
of the definition of ‘‘United States’’ in this chapter.
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Merchant Marine Act, 1936, referred to in subsec.
(b), is act June 29, 1936, ch. 858, 49 Stat. 1985. Title V of
the Act enacted provisions set out as notes under sec-
tion 53101 of this title. For complete classification of
this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1936 Amend-
me
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