---
kind: "unit"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
key: "stII/ptE/ch75"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 75"
heading: "General Procedures for Licensing, Certification, and Documentation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/stII-ptE-ch75"
sections_count: 12
---

# Chapter 75 — General Procedures for Licensing, Certification, and Documentation

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

## Sections

- [§7501. Duplicates](/usc/46/7501.md)
- [§7502. Records](/usc/46/7502.md)
- [§7503. Dangerous drugs as grounds for denial](/usc/46/7503.md)
- [§7504. Travel and expense reimbursement](/usc/46/7504.md)
- [§7505. Review of information in National Driver Register](/usc/46/7505.md)
- [§7506. Convention tonnage for licenses, certificates, and documents](/usc/46/7506.md)
- [§7507. Authority to extend the duration of licenses, certificates of registry, and merchant mariner documents](/usc/46/7507.md)
- [§7508. Authority to extend the duration of medical certificates](/usc/46/7508.md)
- [§7509. Medical certification by trusted agents](/usc/46/7509.md)
- [§7510. Examinations for merchant mariner credentials](/usc/46/7510.md)
- [§7511. Convicted sex offender as grounds for denial](/usc/46/7511.md)
- [§7512. Requirements of electronic merchant mariner credentialing system](/usc/46/7512.md)