46 USC 10503: Exhibiting merchant mariners' documents
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46 USC 10503: Exhibiting merchant mariners' documents Text contains those laws in effect on November 14, 2024
From Title 46-SHIPPINGSubtitle II-Vessels and SeamenPart G-Merchant Seamen Protection and ReliefCHAPTER 105-COASTWISE VOYAGES
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§10503. Exhibiting merchant mariners' documents

Before signing the agreement required by section 10502 of this title, a seaman required by section 8701 of this title to have a merchant mariner's document shall exhibit to the master a document issued to the seaman and appropriately endorsed for the capacity in which the seaman is to serve.

( Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 570 .)

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10503 46:643

Under section 10503 seamen who are required to have a merchant mariner's document must exhibit it before signing a shipping agreement on a coastwise voyage.