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Submerged tonnage mark.
Measurement certificate.
R e g u l a t i o n s by Secretary. Penalties.
PUBLIC LAW 89-219-SEPT. 29, 1965
[79 STAT.
applicable loadline convention, except that, when a vessel's statutory loadline is assigned on the assumption that the second deck is the freeboard deck, the tonnage mark may be permitted to be placed and displayed on a line level with the uppermost part of the loadline grid. SEC. 5. Except when the tonnage mark is placed and displayed on the vessel at the level prescribed in section 4 hereof, an additional line may be added to the tonnage mark, subject to such specifications as to location and dimensions as are prescribed in regulations issued under this Act. SEC. 6. The tonnage mark shall be deemed to be submerged when the upper edge of the mark is under water, except that if the vessel is marked with the additional line in accordance with section 5 of this Act and is in fresh water or in tropical waters the tonnage mark shall not be deemed to be submerged unless the upper edge of the additional line is under water. SEC. 7. I n a case in which a vessel measured under this Act and other applicable statutes has a tonnage mark placed and displayed at a place other than a line level with the uppermost part of the loadline grid, any measurement certificate or marine document reciting tonnages issued to such vessel shall show the gross and net tonnages applicable when the tonnage mark is submerged and the gross and net tonnages applicable when the mark is not submerged. I n any other case in which a vessel is measured under this Act and other applicable statutes, any measurement certificate or marine document reciting tonnages issued to such vessel shall show only one set of gross and net tonnages, taking into account all applicable omissions or exemptions. SEC. 8. I n a case in which an application for omission of spaces is filed under section 2 of this Act for a vessel for which a statutory loadline is not required and is not assigned, the line of the uppermost complete deck shall be marked in the manner specified for marking the deck line in the international loadline convention in force. SEC. 9. Section 4149 of the Revised Statutes (46 U.S.C. 72) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4149. The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe how evidence of admeasurement shall be given. SEC. 10. Section 4150 of the Revised Statutes (46 U.S.C. 74) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4150. A vessel's marine document shall specify such identifying dimensions, measured in such manner, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe." SEC. 11. Section 4153 of the Revised Statutes (46 U.S.C. 77) is amended by inserting before the first paragraph the following: "The tonnage deck, in vessels having three or more decks to the hull, shall be the second deck from below; in all other cases the upper deck of the hull is to be the tonnage deck. All measurements are to be taken in feet and decimal fractions of feet." SEC. 12. The Secretary shall make such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. SEC. 13. Any person who makes a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation in any matter in which such statement or representation is required to be made to the Secretary in any regulation issued under this Act shall be subject to a penalty of not more than $1,000 for each such statement or representation. SEC. 14. If any toimage mark required to be placed and displayed on a vessel in any r e f l a t i o n issued under this Act by the Secretary is not so placed or displayed or if the mark at any time shall cease
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