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Coast Guard, DHS

§ 14.403

§ 14.309 Entries in shipping articles at
end of voyage.
(a) At the end of each voyage upon
which shipping articles are required,
the master or individual in charge of
the vessel shall—
(1) Complete the articles, conforming
the pertinent entries in them to those
on the certificate of discharge and its
copies;
(2) Note in the articles the execution
of each Mutual Release;
(3) Attach to the articles each Mutual Release and a copy of each certificate; and
(4) Pay to each merchant mariner all
wages due.
(b) When paid off, each mariner shall
sign the articles.
§ 14.311 Report of discharge of merchant mariner.
(a) At the end of each foreign, intercoastal, and coastwise voyage by a vessel of the United States, or of each voyage by such a vessel that sails exclusively on bays or sounds (or by such a
vessel at the close of the season on the
Great Lakes, or once the vessel is withdrawn from service there, whichever
occurs later), the shipping company
shall electronically transmit the data
from the certificates of discharge to an
electronic address which the shipping
company may request from the National Maritime Center.
(b) If the data is submitted manually,
the shipping companies shall provide
the data for foreign and intercoastal
voyages at the end of each voyage. For
coastwise voyages or of each voyage by
such a vessel that sails exclusively on
bays or sounds (or by such a vessel at
the close of the season of the Great
Lakes, or once the vessel is withdrawn
from service there, whichever occurs
later), the shipping companies shall
submit a copy of each certificate of discharge to the address in § 14.103(a) at
least once per calendar month.
[CGD 94–004, 61 FR 56637, Nov. 4, 1996, as
amended by USCG–2007–29018, 72 FR 53964,
Sept. 21, 2007]

§ 14.313 Storage of shipping articles
and of certificates of discharge.
(a) Each shipping company shall keep
all original shipping articles and copies
of all certificates of discharge for 3

years. After 3 years the shipping companies shall prepare the original shipping articles in alphabetical order by
vessel name and send to the address in
§ 14.103(a) for storage at the Federal
Records Center at Suitland, Maryland.
The company may dispose of the copies
of certificates of discharge. The Coast
Guard will dispose of copies of certificates submitted manually, once the
data are entered into its sea-service
database and are validated.
(b) Each shipping company that goes
out of business or merges with another
company shall send all original articles
to the address in § 14.103(a) within 30
days of the transaction.
(c) The shipping company must provide copies of shipping articles and certificates of discharge to the mariner
and the Coast Guard upon request.

Subpart D—Oceanographic
Research Vessels
§ 14.401

General.

Unless otherwise provided by Title 46
United States Code, by any act amending or supplementing that Title, or by
this subpart, that Title as far as it governs the employment of merchant
mariners remains, and any act amending or supplementing that title becomes, applicable to oceanographic research vessels.
§ 14.403

Exemptions.

(a) Certain requirements of Title 46,
United States Code do not apply to the
employment of merchant mariners on
oceanographic research vessels. These
requirements are those concerned with,
among other things, the shipment and
discharge of mariners, their pay and allotments, and the adequacy of their
clothing. 46 U.S.C. 2113(2) allows exemptions of oceanographic research
vessels from certain requirements of
parts B, C, F, or G of subtitle II of 46
U.S.C., upon such terms as the Secretary of the Department of Transportation deems suitable. The exemptions
available under this subpart are subject to the following terms:
(1) No use of any exemption relieves
the owner, charterer, managing operator, master, or individual in charge of

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