---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 7104"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "7104"
heading: "Certificates for medical doctors and nurses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/7104"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen"
  - "Part E — Merchant Seamen Licenses, Certificates, and Documents"
  - "Chapter 71 — Licenses and Certificates of Registry"
---

# §7104. Certificates for medical doctors and nurses


A [certificate of registry](/usc/46/12101.md?p=b-1) as a medical doctor or professional nurse may be issued only to an applicant who has a [license](/usc/46/12101.md?p=b-2) as a medical doctor or registered nurse, respectively, issued by a State.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 540.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |
| --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source section (U.S. Code) |
| 7104 | 46:243 |

Section 7104 requires an applicant for a certificate of registry as a medical doctor or professional nurse to have, as a prerequisite, a license as a medical doctor or registered nurse issued by a State.