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CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS – TITLE
33 – NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
PART 181—MANUFACTURER REQUIREMENTS
Subpart C—Identification of Boats
Sec. 181.21—Purpose, applicability
and effective dates
Source: CGD 79-013, 48 FR 40718, Sept. 9, 1983,
unless otherwise noted.
This subpart prescribes the requirements for
identification of boats to which section 46 U.S.C. 4301 applies.
[CGD 79-013, 48 FR 40718, Sept. 9, 1983,
as amended by USCG-1998-3799, 63 FR 35534, June 30, 1998;
USCG-1999-5832, 64 FR 34716, June 29, 1999]
Sec. 181.23—Hull identification numbers
required
(a) A manufacturer (or importer), as defined
in Sec. 181.3 of this part, must identify each boat produced
or imported with two hull identification numbers that meet
the requirements of this subpart:
(1) A primary hull identification number affixed
in accordance with Secs. 181.29(a) and (c) of this subpart;
and
(2) A duplicate hull identification number
affixed in accordance with Secs. 181.29(b) and (c) of this
subpart.
(b) A person who builds or imports a boat for
his or her own use and not for the purposes of sale, must
identify that boat with two hull identification numbers that
meet the requirements of this subpart.
(c) No person may assign the same hull identification
number to more than one boat.
Sec. 181.25—Hull identification number
format
Each of the hull identification numbers required
by Sec. 181.23 must consist of twelve characters, uninterrupted
by slashes, hyphens, or spaces, as follows:
(a) The first three characters must be a manufacturer
identification code assigned under Sec. 181.31(a) or the importer
designation assigned under Sec. 181.31(b).
(b) Characters four through eight must be a
serial number assigned by the manufacturer in letters of the
English alphabet, or Arabic numerals, or both, except the
letters I, O, and Q.
(c) Characters nine and ten must indicate the
month and year of certification when a date of certification
is required. In all other cases characters nine and ten must
indicate the date of manufacture. The date indicated can be
no earlier than the date construction or assembly began and
no later than the date the boat leaves the place of manufacture
or assembly or is imported into the United States for the
purposes of sale. Character nine must be indicated using letters
of the English alphabet. The first month of the year, January,
must be designated by the letter “A”, the second
month, February, by the letter “B”, and so on
until the last month of the year, December. Character ten
must be the last digit of the year of manufacture or certification
and must be an Arabic numeral.
(d) Characters eleven and twelve must indicate
the model year using Arabic numerals for the last two numbers
of the model year such as “82” for 1982 and “83”
for 1983.
Sec. 181.27—Information displayed
near hull identification number
If additional information is displayed on the
boat within two inches of the hull identification number,
that information must be separated from the hull identification
number by means of borders or must be on a separate label
so that it will not be interpreted as part of the hull identification
number.
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