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legal/us/code/title-46/chapter-105/section-10503.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "46 U.S.C. § 10503"
+description: "Exhibiting merchant mariners’ documents"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 46
+title_name: "SHIPPING"
+chapter_number: "105"
+chapter_name: "COASTWISE VOYAGES"
+section: "10503"
+citation: "46 U.S.C. § 10503"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc46@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t46/s10503"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-46/usc46.xml"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 46 U.S.C. § 10503 - Exhibiting merchant mariners’ documents
+
+## Text
+
+Before signing the agreement required by section 10502 of this title, a seaman required by section 8701 of this title to have a merchant mariner’s document shall exhibit to the master a document issued to the seaman and appropriately endorsed for the capacity in which the seaman is to serve.
+
+(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 570.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes Revised sectionSource section (U.S. Code) 1050346:643 Under section 10503 seamen who are required to have a merchant mariner’s document must exhibit it before signing a shipping agreement on a coastwise voyage.