---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 51507"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "51507"
heading: "Places of training"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/51507"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part B — Merchant Marine Service"
  - "Chapter 515 — State Maritime Academy Support Program"
---

# §51507. Places of training


The [Secretary](/usc/46/53101.md?p=8) of Transportation may provide for the training of students attending a [State maritime academy](/usc/46/51102.md?p=4)—

- (1) on [vessels](/usc/46/53501.md?p=9) owned or subsidized by the [United States](/usc/46/53101.md?p=10) Government;
- (2) on other documented [vessels](/usc/46/53501.md?p=9), with the permission of the owner; and
- (3) in shipyards or plants and with industrial or educational organizations.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(b), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1579.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 51507 | 46 App.:1295c(c) (3)(A). | June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title XIII, § 1304(c)(3)(A), as added Pub. L. 96–453, § 2, Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2003. |

In paragraph (2), the words “with the permission of the owner” are substituted for “if the owner . . . cooperates in such use” for clarity.