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legal/us/code/title-46/chapter-75/section-7506.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "46 U.S.C. § 7506"
+description: "Convention tonnage for licenses, certificates, and documents"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 46
+title_name: "SHIPPING"
+chapter_number: "75"
+chapter_name: "GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR LICENSING, CERTIFICATION, AND DOCUMENTATION"
+section: "7506"
+citation: "46 U.S.C. § 7506"
+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/s7506"
+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. § 7506 - Convention tonnage for licenses, certificates, and documents
+
+## Text
+
+Notwithstanding any provision of section 14302(c) or 14305 of this title, the Secretary may—
+
+(1) evaluate the service of an individual who is applying for a license, a certificate of registry, or a merchant mariner’s document by using the tonnage as measured under chapter 143 of this title for the vessels on which that service was acquired, and
+
+(2) issue the license, certificate, or document based on that service.
+
+(Added Pub. L. 104–324, title VII, § 745(a), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3942.)