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legal/us/code/title-46/chapter-565/section-56501.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "46 U.S.C. § 56501"
+description: "Definition"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 46
+title_name: "SHIPPING"
+chapter_number: "565"
+chapter_name: "ESSENTIAL VESSELS AFFECTED BY NEUTRALITY ACT"
+section: "56501"
+citation: "46 U.S.C. § 56501"
+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/s56501"
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+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 46 U.S.C. § 56501 - Definition
+
+## Text
+
+In this chapter, the term “essential vessel” means a vessel that is—
+
+(1) (A) security for a mortgage indebtedness to the United States Government; or
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+(B) constructed under this subtitle or required by a contract under this subtitle to be operated on a certain essential foreign trade route; and
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+(2) necessary in the interests of commerce and national defense to be maintained in condition for prompt use.
+
+(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1656.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 5650146 App.:1242a(a).June 29, 1940, ch. 442, subdiv. (a), 54 Stat. 684.