yourstate.us
Home / United States / 46 U.S.C.
46 U.S.C. § 7304

Citizenship or noncitizen nationality notation on merchant mariners’ documents

United States · Title 46 — SHIPPING · Status: effective

Immigration & Nationality
Get this as JSONEmbed this
Cite this
Citation
46 U.S.C. § 7304, Citizenship or noncitizen nationality notation on merchant mariners’ documents, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/487632
Permanent ID
ys:prov:487632@1
SHA-256
70030d84f2958146b7bf29370b8b2a52c693d55f3791fd6848ded332bcbb2073

The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.

Full text

An individual applying for a merchant mariner’s document shall provide satisfactory proof that the individual is a citizen or noncitizen national (as such term is described in section 308 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1408)) of the United States before that notation is made on the document.

Legislative history

The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.

  • Enacted byPub. L. 98-89(S. 46)1983-08-26
    An act to revise, consolidate, and enact certain laws related to vessels and seamen as subtitle II of title 46, United States Code, "Shipping".
    House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
  • Amended byPub. L. 119-60(S. 1071)2025-12-18
    National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
    House: 312–112Senate: no recorded tally