---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 173.29"
title: "33"
number: "173.29"
heading: "Notification to issuing authority."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/173.29"
---

# §173.29. Notification to issuing authority.


A person whose name appears as the owner of a vessel on a certificate of number shall, within 15 days, notify the issuing authority in a manner prescribed by the issuing authority of:

- (a) Any change in his or her address;
- (b) The theft or recovery of the vessel;
- (c) The loss or destruction of a valid certificate of number;
- (d) The transfer of all or part of his or her interest in the vessel; and
- (e) **The destruction or abandonment of the vessel.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 72-54R, 37 FR 21399, Oct. 7, 1972, as amended by USCG-2003-15404, 68 FR 37742, June 25, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 9701; 46 U.S.C. 2110, 6101, 12301, 12302; OMB Circular A-25; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 72-54R, 37 FR 21399, Oct. 7, 1972, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 72-54R, 37 FR 21399, Oct. 7, 1972, as amended by USCG-2003-15404, 68 FR 37742, June 25, 2003]