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title: "46 U.S.C. § 42103"
description: "No preference to Government-owned vessels"
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title_number: 46
title_name: "SHIPPING"
chapter_number: "421"
chapter_name: "REGULATIONS AFFECTING SHIPPING IN FOREIGN TRADE"
section: "42103"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 42103"
status: "current"
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# 46 U.S.C. § 42103 - No preference to Government-owned vessels
## Text
A regulation may not give a vessel owned by the United States Government a preference over a vessel owned by citizens of the United States and documented under the laws of the United States.
(Pub. L. 109304, § 7, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1549.)
## Notes
Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4210346 App.:876(d).June 5, 1920, ch. 250, § 19(d), 41 Stat. 995; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 12, eff. June 10, 1933; June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title II, § 204, title IX, § 904, 49 Stat. 1987, 2016; Pub. L. 105258, title III, § 301, Oct. 14, 1998, 112 Stat. 1915.