Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 15, 2025

Title 46 - Shipping last revised: Nov 24, 2025
§ 69.173 - Register Tonnage assignments for vessels with only one deck.

A vessel without a second deck is assigned only one gross and one net register tonnage. In calculating the gross register tonnage, only the exemptions in § 69.169 (a) through (d) are allowed. Markings under § 69.177 are not permitted on these vessels.

[CGD 87-015b, 54 FR 37657, Sept. 12, 1989, as amended by USCG-2011-0522, 81 FR 18731, Mar. 31, 2016]
authority: 46 U.S.C. 2301,14103,14104; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1
source: CGD 87-015b, 54 FR 37657, Sept. 12, 1989, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 46 CFR 69.173