Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 19, 2025

Title 46 - Shipping last revised: Nov 24, 2025
§ 4.03-50 - Recreational vessel.

Recreational vessel means a vessel meeting the definition in 46 U.S.C. 2101 that is then being used only for pleasure.

[CGD 84-099, 52 FR 47534, Dec. 14, 1987]
authority: 14 U.S.C. 102; 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 2103,2303A,2306,6101,6301,6305,70034; 50 U.S.C. 198; DHS Delegation 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4. Subpart 4.40 issued under 49 U.S.C. 1131(a)(1)(E)
source: CGD 74-119, 39 FR 33317, Sept. 17, 1974, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 46 CFR 4.03-50