---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 51702"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "51702"
heading: "Civilian nautical schools"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/51702"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part B — Merchant Marine Service"
  - "Chapter 517 — Other Support for Merchant Marine Training"
---

# §51702. Civilian nautical schools

- (a) **Definition.—** In this section, the term “civilian nautical school” means a school operated in the [United States](/usc/46/114.md) (except the [United States](/usc/46/114.md) Merchant Marine [Academy](/usc/46/51102.md?p=1), a [State maritime academy](/usc/46/51102.md?p=4), or another school operated by the [United States](/usc/46/114.md) Government) that offers instruction to individuals quartered on a [vessel](/usc/46/115.md) primarily to train them for service in the merchant marine.
- (b) **Inspection.—** Each [civilian nautical school](#a) is subject to inspection by the Secretary of Transportation.
- (c) **Rating and Certification.—** The Secretary may, under regulations the Secretary may prescribe, provide for the rating and certification of [civilian nautical schools](#a) as to the adequacy of their course of instruction, the competence of their instructors, and the suitability of the equipment used in their course of instruction.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(b), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1582.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 51702 | 46 App.:1295f. | June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title XIII, § 1307, as added Pub. L. 96–453, § 2, Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2007; Pub. L. 98–89, § 4(b), Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 603. |

The text of 46 App. U.S.C. 1295f(d) is omitted because it apparently was intended to apply to former 46 App. U.S.C. 1295f(c), which was repealed in 1983.