---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 51508"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "51508"
heading: "Allowances for students"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/51508"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part B — Merchant Marine Service"
  - "Chapter 515 — State Maritime Academy Support Program"
---

# §51508. Allowances for students


Under regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/46/53101.md?p=8) of Transportation, a student at a [State maritime academy](/usc/46/51102.md?p=4) shall receive from the [Secretary](/usc/46/53101.md?p=8) allowances for transportation (including reimbursement of traveling expenses) when traveling under orders to receive training under [section 51507 of this title](/usc/46/51507.md).


## 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) |
| 51508 | 46 App.:1295c(c) (3)(B). | June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title XIII, § 1304(c)(3)(B), as added Pub. L. 96–453, § 2, Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2004. |