---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 7114"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "7114"
heading: "Fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/7114"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen"
  - "Part E — Merchant Seamen Licenses, Certificates, and Documents"
  - "Chapter 71 — Licenses and Certificates of Registry"
---

# §7114. Fees


The [Secretary](/usc/46/2101.md?p=46) may prescribe by regulation reasonable fees for the inspection of and the issuance of a certificate, [license](/usc/46/12101.md?p=b-2), or permit related to [small passenger vessels](/usc/46/2101.md?p=49) and [sailing school vessels](/usc/46/2101.md?p=42).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 541.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |
| --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source section (U.S. Code) |
| 7114 | 46:390a(b) |

Section 7114 allows the Secretary to prescribe reasonable fees for the issuance of a certificate of inspection, license, or registry, or permits related to small passenger vessels and sailing school vessels.