---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 154.19"
title: "46"
number: "154.19"
heading: "U.S. flag vessel: IMO certificate issuance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/154.19"
---

# §154.19. U.S. flag vessel: IMO certificate issuance.

- (a) Either a classification society authorized under [46 CFR part 8](/cfr/46/part8.md), or the Coast Guard Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, issues an IMO Certificate to a U.S. flag vessel when requested by the owner or representative, if—
  - (1) The vessel meets the requirements of this part; and
  - (2) It is a new gas vessel, it meets the IMO Resolution A.328(IX), “Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk, 1975”; or
  - (3) It is an existing gas vessel, it meets the IMO “Code for Existing Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk, 1975”.
- (b) **The IMO Certificate expires on the same date that the vessel's Certificate of Inspection expires.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 77-069, 52 FR 31626, Aug. 21, 1987, as amended by CGD 95-010, 62 FR 67537, Dec. 24, 1997]

### Source

Source: CGD 77-069, 52 FR 31626, Aug. 21, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3703, 9101; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGD 74-289, 44 FR 26009, May 3, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 77-069, 52 FR 31626, Aug. 21, 1987, as amended by CGD 95-010, 62 FR 67537, Dec. 24, 1997]