---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 42.13-25"
title: "46"
number: "42.13-25"
heading: "Load line mark."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/42.13-25"
---

# §42.13-25. Load line mark.

- (a) The load line mark shall consist of a ring 12 inches in outside diameter and 1 inch wide which is intersected by a horizontal line 18 inches in length and 1 inch in breadth, the upper edge of which passes through the center of the ring. The center of the ring shall be placed amidships and at a distance equal to the assigned summer freeboard measured vertically below the upper edge of the deck line (as illustrated in Figure 42.13-25(a)).

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGFR 68-60, 33 FR 10059, July 12, 1968]

### 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 10059, July 12, 1968]