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title: "46 U.S.C. § 10503"
description: "Exhibiting merchant mariners documents"
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title_number: 46
title_name: "SHIPPING"
chapter_number: "105"
chapter_name: "COASTWISE VOYAGES"
section: "10503"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 10503"
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# 46 U.S.C. § 10503 - Exhibiting merchant mariners documents
## Text
Before signing the agreement required by section 10502 of this title, a seaman required by section 8701 of this title to have a merchant mariners document shall exhibit to the master a document issued to the seaman and appropriately endorsed for the capacity in which the seaman is to serve.
(Pub. L. 9889, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 570.)
## Notes
Historical and Revision Notes Revised sectionSource section (U.S. Code) 1050346:643 Under section 10503 seamen who are required to have a merchant mariners document must exhibit it before signing a shipping agreement on a coastwise voyage.