---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 42.05-30"
title: "46"
number: "42.05-30"
heading: "Existing vessel."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/42.05-30"
---

# §42.05-30. Existing vessel.

- (a) As used in this part 42, for a vessel engaged on international voyages or on domestic voyages by sea, the term existing vessel means a vessel which is not a new vessel. With few exceptions an existing vessel is a vessel the keel of which was laid, or which was at a similar stage of construction, prior to July 21, 1968. (See [§ 42.05-50](/cfr/46/42.05-50.md) for the definition of a new vessel.)
- (b) -(c) [Reserved]
- (d) As used in [part 44](/cfr/46/part44.md) of this subchapter, for a vessel marked with load lines for special service on a coastwise or interisland voyage, the term existing vessel means one whose keel was laid prior to September 28, 1937. (See [§ 44.01-20](/cfr/46/44.01-20.md) of this subchapter.)
- (e) As used in [part 45](/cfr/46/part45.md) of this subchapter, existing vessel in all regulations pertaining to a vessel engaged solely on Great Lakes voyages before April 14, 1973, means a vessel whose keel was laid before August 27, 1936. The regulations pertaining to these vessels that are in effect after April 14, 1973, do not use the term existing vessel.
- (f) As used in [part 46](/cfr/46/part46.md) of this subchapter, for a passenger vessel marked with subdivision load lines, the term existing vessel means a vessel whose keel was laid or was converted to such service prior to May 26, 1965. (See [§ 46.05-30](/cfr/46/46.05-30.md) of this subchapter.)

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGFR 68-60, 33 FR 10051, July 12, 1968, as amended by CGD 73-49R, 38 FR 12290, May 10, 1973; CGD 80-120, 47 FR 5722, Feb. 8, 1982]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 5101-5116; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4; section 42.01-5 also issued under the authority of 44 U.S.C. 3507.

### Amendments

[CGFR 68-60, 33 FR 10051, July 12, 1968, as amended by CGD 73-49R, 38 FR 12290, May 10, 1973; CGD 80-120, 47 FR 5722, Feb. 8, 1982]