46 U.S.C. § 60504 — Reciprocal privileges for recreational vessels
submitted 20 years ago by Pub. L. 109-304 to r/title-46-SHIPPING · 153 words · no verdicts yet
If a foreign country lets U.S. yachts cruise free, the U.S. can return the favor. The Secretary of Homeland Security may then let that country's yachts cruise U.S. waters fee-free. The Secretary can still require a free license with rules on time and place.
This section lets the United States offer a reciprocal deal to a foreign country, for pleasure yachts only.
If the President is satisfied that a foreign port allows yachts owned by U.S. residents — used only for pleasure — to arrive, leave, and cruise its waters without entering, clearing, or paying any duties or fees, including cruising license fees, then the Secretary of Homeland Security may return the favor. The Secretary may let yachts from that same foreign port, also used only for pleasure, arrive at and leave U.S. ports and cruise U.S. waters without paying duties or fees.
Even so, the Secretary may still require these foreign yachts to get a license to cruise U.S. waters. The Secretary decides the license's form and can add limits — on how long the yacht may stay, which direction it travels, where it may cruise and what it may do there, and any other matters the Secretary thinks are appropriate. The license itself must be issued at no cost to the yacht.
When the President is satisfied that yachts owned by residents of the United States and used only for pleasure are allowed to arrive at, depart from, and cruise in the waters of a foreign port without entering, clearing, or paying any duties or fees (including cruising license fees), the Secretary of Homeland Security may allow yachts from that foreign port used only for pleasure to arrive at and depart from the ports of the United States and to cruise in the waters of the United States without paying any duties or fees. However, the Secretary may require foreign yachts to obtain a license to cruise in the waters of the United States. The license shall be in the form prescribed by the Secretary and contain limitations about length of time, direction, place of cruising and action, and other matters the Secretary considers appropriate. The license shall be issued without cost to the yacht.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 109–304, § 9(b), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1680.)
- 2006Enacted · Pub. L. 109-304 · 120 Stat. 1680
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 109-304 on 2006-10-06.
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