---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 14502"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "14502"
heading: "Measurement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/14502"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen"
  - "Part J — Measurement of Vessels"
  - "Chapter 145 — Regulatory Measurement"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §14502. Measurement


The [Secretary](/usc/46/2101.md?p=46) shall measure a vessel to which this chapter applies in the way provided by this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–509, title V, § 5101(3), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1923.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Revised section 14502

Source: Section (U.S. Code) 46 App. U.S.C. 71, 77, 83.

Section 14502 requires the Secretary to measure a vessel to which this chapter applies as provided by this chapter.