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type: "LegalText"
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title: "46 U.S.C. § 10306"
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description: "Exhibiting merchant mariners’ documents"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 46
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title_name: "SHIPPING"
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chapter_number: "103"
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chapter_name: "FOREIGN AND INTERCOASTAL VOYAGES"
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section: "10306"
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citation: "46 U.S.C. § 10306"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc46@119-100.zip"
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# 46 U.S.C. § 10306 - Exhibiting merchant mariners’ documents
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## Text
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Before signing the agreement required by section 10302 of this title, each individual required by section 8701 of this title to have a merchant mariner’s document shall exhibit to the master or individual in charge a document issued to the individual, appropriately endorsed for the capacity in which the individual is to serve.
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(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 564; Pub. L. 103–206, title IV, § 404, Dec. 20, 1993, 107 Stat. 2436.)
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## Notes
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Historical and Revision Notes Revised sectionSource section (U.S. Code) 1030646:643(c) Section 10306 requires a seaman to exhibit an appropriately endorsed merchant mariner’s document to the shipping commissioner before signing a shipping agreement. When a master acts as a shipping commissioner, the same procedure applies.
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Editorial Notes
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Amendments1993—Pub. L. 103–206 substituted “master or individual in charge” for “shipping commissioner”.
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