---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 998.52"
title: "15"
number: "998.52"
heading: "Computation of shore leave."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/998.52"
---

# §998.52. Computation of shore leave.

- (a) A professional mariner earns shore leave at the rate of one day of shore leave for each 3 and one-half consecutive days of assignment to a NOAA ship such that a total of up to 4 days of shore leave may be earned in any given pay period.
- (b) For a professional mariner, an assignment begins either on the date he or she assumes their duties aboard a NOAA ship or on the date he or she comes aboard when a voyage is in progress. The assignment terminates on the date he or she ceases to be assigned to a NOAA ship or on the date on which he or she is released from assignment of their duties.
- (c) In computing days of assignment, the Administration shall also include:
  - (1) The days a professional mariner spends traveling to join a NOAA ship to which assigned;
  - (2) The days a professional mariner spends traveling between NOAA ships when the employee is assigned from one NOAA ship to another; and
  - (3) The days on which the professional mariner is on sick leave when he or she becomes sick during an assignment (whether or not continued as a member of the crew) but not beyond the termination date of the assignment to the NOAA ship.
- (d) In computing days of assignment, the Administration shall not include days the professional mariner is on any kind of leave other than sick leave.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 3079b.

### Source

Source: 88 FR 48725, July 28, 2023, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.

### Source

Source: 87 FR 31708, May 25, 2022, unless otherwise noted.