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Timestamp: 2020-04-03 07:10:53
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 35', 'art 35', '§35', '§35', '§35', '§35', '§35', '§35', '§35', '§35', '§35']

Title 46 → Chapter I → Subchapter D → Part 35 → Subpart 35.20
§35.20-1 Notice to mariners; aids to navigation—T/OCLB.
§35.20-5 Draft of tankships—T/OC.
§35.20-7 Verification of vessel compliance with applicable stability requirements—TB/ALL.
§35.20-10 Steering gear test—T/ALL.
§35.20-20 Master's and officer's responsibility—TB/ALL.
§35.20-30 Flashing the rays of a searchlight or other blinding light—T/ALL.
§35.20-35 Whistling—T/ALL.
§35.20-45 Use of Auto Pilot—T/ALL.
(a) Licensed officers are required to acquaint themselves with the latest information published by the Coast Guard and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency regarding aids to navigation, and neglect to do so is evidence of neglect of duty. It is desirable that vessels navigating oceans and coastwise and Great Lakes water shall have available in the pilothouse for convenient reference at all times a file of the applicable Notice to Mariners.
(d) As appropriate for the intended voyage, all vessels must carry adequate and up-to-date:
(1) Charts;
(2) Sailing directions;
(3) Coast pilots;
(4) Light lists;
(5) Notices to mariners;
(6) Tide tables;
(7) Current tables; and
(8) All other nautical publications necessary.1
[CGFR 66-33, 31 FR 15268, Dec. 6, 1966, as amended by CGFR 68-32, 33 FR 5714, Apr. 12, 1968; CGD 75-074, 42 FR 5963, Jan. 31, 1977; CGD 88-070, 53 FR 34534, Sept. 7, 1988; USCG-2001-10224, 66 FR 48619, Sept. 21, 2001; USCG-2014-0688, 79 FR 58280, Sept. 29, 2014]
The master of every tankship shall, whenever leaving port, enter the maximum draft of his vessel in the logbook.
(c) If a log book is required by §35.07-5, then the master or person in charge must enter an attestation statement verifying that the vessel complies with the applicable stability requirements at the times specified in paragraph (a) and any stability calculations made in support of the determination must be retained on board the vessel for the duration of the voyage.
[CGD 88-037, 57 FR 41821, Sept. 11, 1992, as amended by USCG-2014-0688, 79 FR 58280, Sept. 29, 2014]
On all tankships making voyages of more than 48 hours' duration, the entire steering gear, the whistle, the means of communication, and the signaling appliances between the bridge or pilothouse and engineroom shall be examined and tested by a licensed officer of the vessel within a period of not more than 12 hours before leaving port. All such vessels making voyages of less than 48 hours' duration or operating on lakes, bays, sounds, and rivers shall be so examined and tested at least once in every week. The fact and time of such examination and test shall be recorded in the ship's logbook.
Nothing in this part shall exonerate any master or officer in command from the consequences of any neglect to keep a proper lookout or the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen or by the special circumstances of the case.
No person shall flash, or cause to be flashed, the rays of a search light or other blinding light onto the bridge or into the pilothouse of any vessel under way.
The unnecessary sounding of a vessel's whistle is prohibited within any harbor limits of the United States.
When the automatic pilot is used in:
[CGD 75-074, 42 FR 5963, Jan. 31, 1977, as amended by CGD 91-204, 58 FR 27633, May 10, 1993; USCG-2015-0926, 83 FR 55281, Nov. 5, 2018, 83 FR 56271, Nov. 13, 2018]