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legal/us/code/title-46/chapter-573/section-57308.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "46 U.S.C. § 57308"
+description: "Use of vessels at least 25 years old"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 46
+title_name: "SHIPPING"
+chapter_number: "573"
+chapter_name: "VESSEL TRADE-IN PROGRAM"
+section: "57308"
+citation: "46 U.S.C. § 57308"
+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/s57308"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 46 U.S.C. § 57308 - Use of vessels at least 25 years old
+
+## Text
+
+An obsolete vessel acquired under this chapter that is or becomes at least 25 years old may not be used for commercial operation. However, the vessel may be used—
+
+(1) during a period in which vessels may be requisitioned under chapter 563 of this title; or
+
+(2) except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, on trade routes serving only the foreign trade of the United States.
+
+(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1664.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 5730846 App.:1160(g).June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title V, § 510(g), as added Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 417, § 7, 53 Stat. 1185; Pub. L. 86–518, § 1, June 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 216; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(91), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 161. The words “and vessels presently in the Secretary’s laid-up fleet which are or become twenty-five years old or more” and “or any such vessel in the laid-up fleet” are omitted as obsolete. In paragraph (2), the words “for the employment of the Secretary’s vessels in steamship lines” are omitted as unnecessary.