---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 4.03-40"
title: "46"
number: "4.03-40"
heading: "Public vessels."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/4.03-40"
---

# §4.03-40. Public vessels.


Public vessel means a vessel that—

- (a) Is owned, or demise chartered, and operated by the U.S. Government or a government of a foreign country, except a vessel owned or operated by the Department of Transportation or any corporation organized or controlled by the Department (except a vessel operated by the Coast Guard or Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation); and
- (b) **Is not engaged in commercial service.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 95-028, 62 FR 51195, Sept. 30, 1997]

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 2103, 2303a, 2306, 6101, 6301, 6305, 56311, and 70034; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4. Subpart 4.40 issued under 49 U.S.C. 1903(a)(1)(E).

### Source

Source: CGD 74-119, 39 FR 33317, Sept. 17, 1974, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 95-028, 62 FR 51195, Sept. 30, 1997]