49 CFR § 176.7 - Documentation for vessel personnel.

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title: "49 CFR § 176.7 - Documentation for vessel personnel."
title_number: 49
title_name: "Transportation"
section_number: "176.7"
section_name: "Documentation for vessel personnel."
chapter_name: "PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "HAZARDOUS MATERIALS REGULATIONS"
part_number: "176"
part_name: "CARRIAGE BY VESSEL"
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authority: "49 U.S.C. 5101-5128; 49 CFR 1.81 and 1.97."
regulatory_source: "Amdt. 176-1, 41 FR 16110, Apr. 15, 1976, unless otherwise noted."
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# 176.7 Documentation for vessel personnel.

Each owner, operator, master, agent, person in charge, and charterer must ensure that vessel personnel required to have a license, certificate of registry, or merchant mariner's document by 46 CFR parts 10 and 12 possess a license, certificate or document, as appropriate.

[68 FR 23842, May 5, 2003]