---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 158.135"
title: "33"
number: "158.135"
heading: "Which ports and terminals must have Certificates of Adequacy?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/158.135"
---

# §158.135. Which ports and terminals must have Certificates of Adequacy?


To continue to receive ships, a port or terminal must hold one or more Certificates of Adequacy to show compliance with—

- (a) [Subpart B](/cfr/33/subpartB.md) of this part if it receives oceangoing tankers, or any other oceangoing ship of 400 gross tons or more, carrying oily mixtures.
- (b) **Subpart C of this part if it receives oceangoing ships carrying NLSs.**
- (c) **Subpart D of this part if it receives—**
  - (1) The ships under paragraph [(a)](#a) or [(b)](#b) of this section; or
  - (2) Fishing vessels which offload more than 500,000 pounds of commercial fishery products from all ships during a calendar year.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 88-002, 54 FR 18408, Apr. 28, 1989, as amended by USCG-2000-7641, 66 FR 55574, Nov. 2, 2001]

### Source

Source: CGD 85-010, 52 FR 7761, Mar. 12, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1903(b), 1905(c); 49 CFR 1.46.

### Amendments

[CGD 88-002, 54 FR 18408, Apr. 28, 1989, as amended by USCG-2000-7641, 66 FR 55574, Nov. 2, 2001]