---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3823"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3823"
heading: "Other compliance documentation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3823"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Clean Hulls"
  - "Subchapter II — Implementation of the Convention"
---

# §3823. Other compliance documentation


In addition to the requirements under sections [3821](/usc/33/3821.md) and [3822](/usc/33/3822.md) of this title, the [Secretary](/usc/33/3801.md?p=10) may require [vessels](/usc/33/3801.md?p=12) to hold other documentation considered necessary to verify compliance with this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–281, title X, § 1023, Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 3026.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title X of Pub. L. 111–281, Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 3023, which enacted this chapter and repealed chapter 37 (§ 2401 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of title X to the Code, see Tables.