---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 3510"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "3510"
heading: "Additional medical and safety standards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/3510"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen"
  - "Part B — Inspection and Regulation of Vessels"
  - "Chapter 35 — Carriage of Passengers"
---

# §3510. Additional medical and safety standards

- (a) **Automated External Defibrillators.—** Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the [Secretary](/usc/46/2101.md?p=46), in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/46/2101.md?p=46) of Health and Human Services and other appropriate Federal agencies, shall promulgate regulations to—
  - (1) require that the [owner](/usc/46/10101.md?p=2) of a vessel to which [section 3507](/usc/46/3507.md) applies install, and maintain in working order, automated external defibrillators on such vessel;
  - (2) require that such defibrillators be placed throughout such vessel in clearly designated locations;
  - (3) require that such defibrillators are available for passenger and crew access in the event of an emergency; and
  - (4) require that automated external defibrillators, or adjacent equipment, allow passengers and crew to easily contact medical staff of the vessel.
- (b) **Definition of Owner.—** In this section, the term “[owner](/usc/46/10101.md?p=2)” has the meaning given such term in section 3507.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–14, § 3(a), May 24, 2021, 135 Stat. 275.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The date of enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (a), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 117–14, which was approved May 24, 2021.