92 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



Effective date of rules and regulations 



(8) The rules and regulations to be established pursuant to this 

 section shall become effective ninety days after their promulgation 

 unless the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall for good cause fix 

 a different time. 



Regulation of carriage of explosives or other dangerous articles 

 on vessels 



46 U.S.C. 170 (R.S. 4472) 



(1) The word "vessel" as used in this section shall include every 

 vessel, domestic or foreign, regardless of character, tonnage, size, 

 service, and whether self-propelled or not, on the navigable waters 

 of the United States, including its Territories and possessions, but 

 not including the Panama Canal Zone, whether arriving or depart- 

 ing, or under way, moored, anchored, aground, or while in dry- 

 dock; it shall not include any public vessel which is not engaged in 

 commercial service, nor any vessel subject to the provisions of sec- 

 tion 391a of this title, which is constructed or converted for the 

 principal purpose of carrying inflammable or combustible liquid 

 cargo in bulk in its own tanks: Provided^ That the provisions of 

 subsection (3) of this section shall apply to every such vessel sub- 

 ject to the provisions of section 391a of this title, which is constructed 

 or converted for the principal purpose of carrying inflammable or 

 combustible liquid cargo in bulk in its own tanks. 



(2) The phrase "passenger-carrying vessel" as used in this section, 

 when applied to a vessel subject to any provision of the International 

 Convention for Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, means a vessel which 

 carries or is authorized to carry more than twelve passengers. 



( 3 ) It shall be unlawful knowingly to transport, carry, convey, store, 

 stow, or use on board any vessel fulminates or other detonating com- 

 pounds in bulk in dry condition, or explosive compositions that ignite 

 spontaneously or undergo marked decomposition when subjected for 

 forty-eight consecutive hours to a temperature of one hundred and 

 sixty-seven degrees Fahrenheit, or compositions containing an ammo- 

 nium salt and a chlorate, or other like explosives. 



(4) It shall be unlawful knowingly to transport, carry, convey, 

 store, stow, or use on board any passenger-carrying vessel any high 

 explosives such as, and including, liquid nitroglycerin, dynamite, 

 trinitrotoluene, picrates, detonating fuzes, fireworks that can be ex- 

 ploded en masse, or other explosives susceptible to detonation by a 

 blasting cap or detonating fuze, except ships' signal and emergency 

 equipment, and samples of such explosives (but not including liquid 

 nitroglycerin) for laboratory or sales purposes in restricted quan- 

 tities as may be permitted by regulations of the Commandant of the 

 Coast Guard established hereunder. 



(5) It shall be unlawful knowingly to transport, carry, convey, 

 store, stow, or use on board any vessel other than a passenger-carry- 

 ing vessel, any high explosive referred to in subsection (4) hereof 

 except as permitted by the regulations of the Commandant of the 

 Coast Guard established hereunder. 



