---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 45.1"
title: "46"
number: "45.1"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/45.1"
---

# §45.1. Purpose.


This part prescribes requirements for assignment of freeboards, issuance of loadline certificates, and marking of loadlines for service on the Great Lakes of North America.


## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 73-49R, 38 FR 12290, May 10, 1973, as amended by USCG-1998-4442, 63 FR 52190, Sept. 30, 1998]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 5104, 5108; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGD 73-49R, 38 FR 12290, May 10, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 73-49R, 38 FR 12290, May 10, 1973, as amended by USCG-1998-4442, 63 FR 52190, Sept. 30, 1998]