Regulations last checked for updates: May 03, 2025

Title 46 - Shipping last revised: Mar 17, 2025
§ 10.207 - Identification number.

For recordkeeping purposes only, a mariner's official MMC identification number is the individual's social security number. However, a unique serial number, called the mariner reference number, and not the social security number, will appear on the credential.

[USCG-2006-24371, 74 FR 11216, Mar. 16, 2009, as amended by USCG-2004-17914, 78 FR 77888, Dec. 24, 2013]
authority: 14 U.S.C. 503; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 46 U.S.C. 2101,2103,2104,2110; 46 U.S.C. chapter 71; 46 U.S.C. chapter 73; 46 U.S.C. chapter 75; 46 U.S.C. 7701,8903,8904,and; Executive Order 10173; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4
source: USCG-2006-24371, 74 FR 11216, Mar. 16, 2009, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 46 CFR 10.207