114 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



SUBCHAPTER 3D.— MODE, MANNER, AND EXTENT OF INSPECTIONS 

 OF SMALL PASSENGER-CARRYING VESSELS 



Definitions (Small passenger-carrying vessels) 

 46 U.S.C. 390 



When used in sections 39O-390g, 404, and 526f of this title, unless 

 the context requires otherwise — 



(a) the term "passenger" means every person carried on board a 

 passenger-carrying vessel other than — 



(1) the owner or his representative; 



(2) the master and the bona fide members of the crew engaged 

 in the business of the vessel who have contributed no consideration 

 for their carriage and who are paid for their services; 



(3) any employee of the owner of the vessel engaged in the 

 business of the owner, except when the vessel is operating under a 

 bareboat charter; 



(4) any employee of the bareboat charterer of the vessel engaged 

 in the business of the bareboat charterer; 



(5) any guest on board a vessel which is being used exclusively 

 for pleasure purposes who has not contributed any consideration, 

 directly or indirectly, for his carriage ; or 



(6) any person on board a vessel documented and used for 

 tugboat or towboat service of fifty gross tons or more who has not 

 contributed any consideration, directly or indirectly, for his carriage. 



(b) The t«rm "passenger-carrying vessel" means any vessel which 

 carries more than six passengers, and which is (1) propelled in 

 whole or in part by steam or by any form of mechanical or electrical 

 power and is of fift-een gross tons or less; (2) propelled in whole or 

 ui part by steam or bv any form of mechanical or electrical power 

 and is of more than fifteen and less than one hundred gross tons and 

 not more than sixty-five feet in length measured from end to end 

 over the deck excluding sheer; (3) propelled by sail and is of seven 

 hundred gross tons or less; or (4) non-self-propelled and is of one 

 hundred gross tons or less; except any public vessel of the United 

 States or of any foreign state, or any life boat forming part of a 

 vessel's lifesaving equipment. The term includes (1) any domestic 

 vessel operating on the navigable waters of the United States, or on 

 the high seas outside of those waters and within the normal oper- 

 ating range of the vessel, and (2) any foreign vessel departing from 

 a port of the United States. 



(c) The term "Inteniational Convention for Safety of Life at 

 Sea" means the "International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea^ 

 1948" or any similar international convention which comes into force 

 and effect after ratification by the United States Senate. 



(d) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the department 

 in which the Coast Guard is operating. 



Inspection 



46 U.S,C. 390a 



(a) The Secretary shall, at least once every three years, cause 

 to be inspected each passenger-carrying vessel, and shall satisfy him- 



