---
kind: "unit"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
key: "stVI/ch603"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 603"
heading: "Tonnage Taxes and Light Money"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/stVI-ch603"
sections_count: 12
---

# Chapter 603 — Tonnage Taxes and Light Money

Title 46 — Shipping › Subtitle VI — Clearance, Tonnage Taxes, and Duties

## Sections

- [§60301. Regular tonnage taxes](/usc/46/60301.md)
- [§60302. Special tonnage taxes](/usc/46/60302.md)
- [§60303. Light money](/usc/46/60303.md)
- [§60304. Presidential suspension of tonnage taxes and light money](/usc/46/60304.md)
- [§60305. Vessels in distress](/usc/46/60305.md)
- [§60306. Vessels not engaged in trade](/usc/46/60306.md)
- [§60307. Vessels engaged in coastwise trade or the fisheries](/usc/46/60307.md)
- [§60308. Vessels engaged in Great Lakes trade](/usc/46/60308.md)
- [§60309. Passenger vessels making trips between ports of the United States and foreign ports](/usc/46/60309.md)
- [§60310. Vessels making daily trips on interior waters](/usc/46/60310.md)
- [§60311. Hospital vessels in time of war](/usc/46/60311.md)
- [§60312. Rights under treaties preserved](/usc/46/60312.md)