---
kind: "unit"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
key: "stII/ptE/ch71"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 71"
heading: "Licenses and Certificates of Registry"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/stII-ptE-ch71"
sections_count: 16
---

# Chapter 71 — Licenses and Certificates of Registry

Title 46 — Shipping › Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen › Part E — Merchant Seamen Licenses, Certificates, and Documents

## Sections

- [§7101. Issuing and classifying licenses and certificates of registry](/usc/46/7101.md)
- [§7102. Citizenship or noncitizen nationality](/usc/46/7102.md)
- [§7103. Licenses for radio officers](/usc/46/7103.md)
- [§7104. Certificates for medical doctors and nurses](/usc/46/7104.md)
- [§7105. Oaths](/usc/46/7105.md)
- [§7106. Duration of licenses](/usc/46/7106.md)
- [§7107. Duration of certificates of registry](/usc/46/7107.md)
- [§7108. Termination of licenses and certificates of registry](/usc/46/7108.md)
- [§7109. Review of criminal records](/usc/46/7109.md)
- [§7110. Exhibiting licenses](/usc/46/7110.md)
- [§7111. Oral examinations for licenses](/usc/46/7111.md)
- [§7112. Licenses of masters or mates as pilots](/usc/46/7112.md)
- [§7113. Exemption from draft](/usc/46/7113.md)
- [§7114. Fees](/usc/46/7114.md)
- [§7115. Repealed.](/usc/46/7115.md)
- [§7116. Examinations for merchant mariner credentials](/usc/46/7116.md)