---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 97.15-5"
title: "46"
number: "97.15-5"
heading: "Drafts and load line markings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/97.15-5"
---

# §97.15-5. Drafts and load line markings.

- (a) The master of every vessel on an ocean, coastwise, or Great Lakes voyage shall enter the drafts of the vessel, forward and aft, in the official logbook when leaving port.
- (b) On vessels subject to the requirements of subchapter E (Load Lines) of this chapter at the time of departure from port on an ocean, coastwise, or Great Lakes voyage, the master shall insert in the official logbook a statement of the position of the load line mark, port and starboard, in relation to the surface of the water in which the vessel is then floating.
  - (1) When an allowance for draft is made for density of the water in which the vessel is floating, this density is to be noted in the official logbook.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(j); 46 U.S.C. 2103, 3306, 5111, 6101; 49 U.S.C. 5103, 5106; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; E.O. 12777, 56 FR 54757; 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGFR 65-50, 30 FR 17011, Dec. 30, 1965, unless otherwise noted.