---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 14521"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "14521"
heading: "Application"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/14521"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen"
  - "Part J — Measurement of Vessels"
  - "Chapter 145 — Regulatory Measurement"
  - "Subchapter III — Simplified System"
---

# §14521. Application


This subchapter applies to a vessel described in [section 14501 of this title](/usc/46/14501.md) that is not measured under subchapter II of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–509, title V, § 5101(3), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1925.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Revised section 14521

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

Section 14521 provides that vessels that are to be measured under the regulatory measurement system in this chapter, but are not measured under the standard regulatory measurement system in subchapter II, shall be measured under the simplified measurement system.