---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 148.2"
title: "46"
number: "148.2"
heading: "Responsibility and compliance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/148.2"
---

# §148.2. Responsibility and compliance.


Each master of a vessel, person in charge of a barge, owner, operator, shipper, charterer, or agent must ensure compliance with this part. These persons are also responsible for communicating requirements to every person performing any function covered by this part.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1602; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; 46 U.S.C. 3306, 5111; 49 U.S.C. 5103; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: 75 FR 64591, Oct. 19, 2010, unless otherwise noted.