Regulations last checked for updates: May 18, 2024

Title 46 - Shipping last revised: May 14, 2024
§ 309.202 - Definitions.

Stores and supplies are those articles and commodities used and consumed in the day-to-day operation of a vessel by the operation and maintenance of machinery and equipment; the maintenance of clean and sanitary conditions; the feeding of passengers, officers, and crew; and stocked for the use and convenience of passengers, officers, and crew. Vessel stores and supplies include (a) consumable stores, (b) subsistence stores, (c) slop chest, (d) bar stock, and (e) fuel, as defined in Maritime Administration Inventory Books, Forms MA-4736, A through K.

authority: Secs. 204, 1209, Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 1114,1289; Reorganization Plans No. 21 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1273), No. 7 of 1961 (75 Stat. 840) as amended by Pub. L. 91-469 (84 Stat. 1036); Department of Commerce Organization Order 10-8 (38 FR 19707, July 23, 1973); Maritime Administrative Order 440-3 (December 6, 1973)
source: 39 FR 30487, Aug. 23, 1974, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 46 CFR 309.202