---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3823"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3823"
heading: "Regulations governing inspection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3823"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Panama Canal"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Regulations"
  - "Part 8 — Shipping and Navigation"
  - "Subpart ii — inspection of vessels"
---

# §3823. Regulations governing inspection


The [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) shall prescribe, and from time to time may amend, regulations concerning the inspection of vessels conforming as nearly as practicable to the laws and regulations governing marine inspection by the United States Coast Guard.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1813, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 493.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.