---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 196.27-1"
title: "46"
number: "196.27-1"
heading: "Master's and officer's responsibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/196.27-1"
---

# §196.27-1. Master's and officer's responsibility.

- (a) Nothing in this part shall exonerate any master or officer in command from the consequences of any neglect to keep a proper lookout or the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen or by the special circumstances of the case.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(j); 46 U.S.C. 2213, 3306, 5115, 6101; E.O. 12777, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGFR 67-83, 33 FR 1158, Jan. 27, 1968, unless otherwise noted.