---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 138.160"
title: "33"
number: "138.160"
heading: "Non-owning COFR Operator's responsibility for identification."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/138.160"
---

# §138.160. Non-owning COFR Operator's responsibility for identification.

- (a) Each COFR Operator of a vessel with a COFR, other than an unmanned, non-self-propelled barge, who is not also an owner of the vessel must ensure that the original or a legible copy of the vessel's demise charter-party (or other written document on the owner's letterhead, signed by the vessel owner, which specifically identifies the COFR Operator named on the COFR) is maintained on board the vessel.
- (b) The demise charter-party or other document required by [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section must be presented, upon request, for examination and copying, to the Director or other United States Government official.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 86 FR 68139, Dec. 1, 2021, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 6 U.S.C. 552(d); 33 U.S.C. 2704, 2716, 2716a; 42 U.S.C. 9608, 9609; E.O. 12580, Sec. 7(b), 3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193; E.O. 12777, Secs. 4 and 5, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351, as amended by E.O. 13286, Sec. 89, 3 CFR, 2004 Comp., p. 166, and by E.O. 13638, Sec. 1, 3 CFR, 2014 Comp., p.227; Department of Homeland Security Delegation Nos. 00170.1, Revision 01.2 and 5110, Revision 01. Section 138.40 also issued under the authority of 46 U.S.C. 2103 and 14302.

### Source

Source: USCG-2005-21780, 73 FR 53697, Sept. 17, 2008, unless otherwise noted.