Headquarters

Customs agent in charge, Chicago.

Customs agent in charge, Cleveland. Customs agent in charge, Detroit.

Customs agent in charge, Duluth.

Customs agent in charge, Anchorage.

Customs agent in charge, Honolulu. Regional customs representative, Rome, Italy.

Senior customs representative, London, England.

Geographical jurisdiction

The States of Indiana and Iowa; that part of the State of Illinois lying north of 39° north latitude; that part of the State of Wisconsin lying south of Route U.S. 10; that part of the State of Minnesota lying south of Route U.S. 14. The States of Ohio and Kentucky and the county of Erie in the State of Pennsylvania.

State of Michigan except that part lying west of Route 41 extending from Escanaba to Marquette; and that part of the Dominion of Canada lying between 81° W. longitude and 87° W. longitude. The States of North and South Dakota, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming; that part of the State of Michigan lying west of Route 41 extending from Escanaba to Marquette; that part of the State of Minnesota lying north of U.S. 14 including all cities on that highway; that part of the State of Wisconsin lying north of U.S. 10 including all cities on that highway; and that part of the Dominion of Canada lying between 87° W. longitude and 117° W. longitude. The States of Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and that part of the State of Illinois lying south of 39° north latitude. Imperial County, Calif.

The County of San Diego in the State of California.

The State of Arizona except Yuma and Mohave Counties.

Yuma and Mohave Counties, Ariz.

All of the Customs District of Los Angeles, Calif.

All of the Customs District of San Francisco, Calif.

All of the Customs District of Portland, Oreg.

All of the customs district of Seattle, Wash., and that part of the Dominion of Canada lying west of 117° west longitude.

The State of Alaska.

The State of Hawaii.

Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, all the Middle East and Iron Curtain countries, Africa.

British Isles and Ireland.

Region VI (Houston, Tex.) is also served by the Customs laboratory at New Orleans. 10 The national holidays are Jan. 1, Feb. 22, May 30, July 4, the first Monday in September, Nov. 11, the fourth Thursday in November, and Dec. 25. If a holiday falls on Sunday, the following day will be observed. (E.O. No. 10358, June 9, 1952.) If a holiday falls on Saturday, the day immediately preceding such Saturday will be observed (5 U.S.C. 87c). Other days may be designated as national holidays by Executive order of the President.

(b) Different but equivalent hours shall be observed if a difference is required for the maintenance of adequate service because of local conditions, is approved by the Commissioner of Customs, and a notice of the hours of business is prominently displayed at the principal entrance and in each public room of the customs office.

(c) At each port or station where there is no full-time customs employee, the hours during which the customs office will be open for the transaction of general customs business shall be fixed by the district director of customs concerned with the approval of the regional commissioner of customs, and notice thereof shall be displayed prominently at the principal entrance of the office.

(d) Each customs office shall be open for the transaction of general customs business on all State and local holidays occurring on days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays. If a State or local holiday interferes with the performance of work in a customs office by any customs employee or employees, the principal field officer may request approval of the regional commissioner of customs to excuse such employees from duty without charge to leave.

(e) Customs services required to be performed outside a customs office shall be furnished between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. (or between the corresponding hours at ports where different but equivalent hours are required for the maintenance of adequate service and are approved by the Commissioner of Customs) on all days when the customs

office is open for the transaction of gen-
eral customs business. In accordance
with such instructions as the regional
commissioner of customs shall have is-
sued from time to time and upon reason-
able advance notice to the principal local
officer concerned, such services may be
furnished between the same hours on
Saturdays.

(f) Where there is a regularly recur-
ring need for customs services outside
the above-prescribed hours, and the
volume and duration of the required
services are uniformly such as to require,
of themselves or in immediately consecu-
tive combination with other essential
customs activities of the port, the full
time of one or more customs employees,
the necessary number of regular tours
of duty to furnish such services on all
days of the year except Sundays and
national holidays may be established
with the approval of the Commissioner
of Customs.

(g) Customs services shall be fur-
nished private interests otherwise than
as specified in this section only in ac-
cordance with the provisions of § 24.16
of this chapter.

(a) The customs seal of the United
States consisting of the seal of the Treas-
ury Department surrounded by an outer
circle in which appears the words
"Treasury Department" at the top and
"Bureau of Customs" at the bottom ac-
cording to the design furnished by the
Treasury Department, shall be im-
pressed upon all official documents re-
quiring the impress of a seal.

(b) The impress of the seal is not
necessary on documents passing within
the Customs Service. The seal shall be
impressed on marine documents, and on
landing certificates, certificates of
weight, gauge, or measure, and similar
classes of documents for outside inter-
ests.

(c) The official seal shall not be used

in the manner of a notary seal to indicate

authority to administer oaths.

2.81

2.82

2.83

2.84

2.85

2.86

2.87

2.88

2.89

2.90

2.91

2.92

2.93

Definitions of items of deduction.

Definitions of structural terms, etc.

Suez and Panama Canal certificates.

OPTIONAL DUAL-TONNAGE METHOD FOR

MEASUREMENT OF VESSELS

Additional closed-in spaces omitted

from gross tonnage.

Regulations

2.94

2.95

2.96

2.97

2.98

2.99

2.100

applicable to vessels

measured under the optional dual-

tonnage method.

Capacity under tonnage deck.

Capacity between decks.

Capacity of deck structures.

Hatchways.

Register tonnages.

Single-tonnage

and dual-tonnage

assignments for vessels measured

under the provisions of the optional

dual-tonnage method.

Definitions of terms used in §§ 2.80

through 2.100 of this Part 2.

The tonnage mark and form of

identification.

Longitudinal location of the tonnage

mark.

Vertical location of the tonnage mark.

Depth (D.) used with the tonnage

mark table.

Length (Lt) used in the tonnage

mark table.

Figures in the tonnage mark table.

Tonnage mark table.

Line of the second deck.

Line of the uppermost complete deck.

Placing the tonnage mark in relation

to the deck line.

Application for measurement accord-

ing to the optional dual-tonnage

method.

Certification as to location of the

tonnage mark.

OPTIONAL SIMPLIFIED ADMEASUREMENT

METHOD FOR PLEASURE VESSELS

2.101 Application for simplified admeasure-

ment.

2.102 Definition of terms used in §§ 2.101

2, 3, 23 Stat. 118, as amended, 119, as amend-

ed, R.S. 4148, as amended, 4149, as amended,

4150, as amended, 4151, as amended, 4153,

as amended; 5 U.S.C. 301, 46 U.S.C. 2, 3, 71,

72, 74, 75, 77.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 2 ap-

pear at 28 F.R. 14553, Dec. 31, 1963, unless

otherwise noted.

NOTE: The regulations of this part are

under the cognizance of the Coast Guard.

§ 2.1

Authority of Commissioner.

(a) The Secretary of the Treasury

has delegated to the Commissioner of

Customs supervision of the laws relating

to the measurement of vessels. On all

questions of interpretation growing out

of the execution of the laws relating to

this subject, the decision of the Com-

missioner is final.

(b) The Commissioner of Customs

shall, in the following sections, be re-

ferred to as the Commissioner.

(c) Doubts arising in the minds of

the admeasures concerning decks to the
hull, enclosures on or above the upper
deck, shelter decks, method of procedure,
etc., shall be submitted to the Commis-
sioner for his decision, and shall be ac-
companied by blueprints or sketches of
the spaces in question giving all the facts
bearing on same.

[28 F.R. 14553, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by
T.D. 66-57, 31 F.R. 4294, Mar. 11, 1966]

§ 2.2 What vessels are to be admeasured.

(a) Before any vessel is registered, en-
rolled and licensed, or licensed, or issued
a certificate of record, her tonnages shall
be ascertained by an officer of the cus-
toms as provided in these regulations.

(b) In the discretion of the Commis-

sioner of Customs, a vessel not required

by law to be admeasured may neverthe-

less be admeasured upon his own motion

or upon application by the owner, a

Federal or State agency, or a foreign

government.

[T.D. 67-69, 32 F.R. 3388, Mar. 1, 1967]

§ 2.3 Purpose for which measurements

are taken.

(a) Tonnage measurements are taken
for the purpose of ascertaining the in-
ternal capacity of measurable spaces.

(b) All measurements are to be taken
in feet and fractions of feet, and all
fractions of feet shall be expressed in
decimals.

§ 2.4 Register ton.

A register ton is a volume of 100 cubic feet.

§ 2.5 Gross register tonnage.

(a) The gross tonnage, referred to in this part is the gross register tonnage; that is, the gross tonnage exclusive of all permissible exempted spaces. Under the provisions of § 2.87(b), a vessel may have two gross tonnages. The higher gross tonnage is applicable when a tonnage mark which is placed and displayed on the side of the vessel is submerged and the lower is applicable when the tonnage mark is not submerged.

(b) Except in the case of a vessel which is measured under the provisions of §§ 2.80 through 2.100, or under the provisions of §§ 2.101 through 2.104, the gross register tonnage of a vessel shall consist of the following items:

(1) The cubic capacity below the tonnage deck, excluding exemptible water-ballast spaces within the measurable portion of the vessel;

(2) The cubic capacity of each between-deck space above the tonnage deck;

(3) The cubic capacity of the permanent closed-in spaces on the upper deck available for cargo or stores, or for the accommodation of passengers and/or

crew;

(4) All permanent closed-in spaces situated elsewhere available for cargo or stores, or for the accommodation of the crew, or for the charts, except cabins or staterooms for passengers, constructed entirely above the first deck which is not a deck to the hull;

(5) The excess of hatchways.

(c) The gross tonnage of a vessel measured under the provisions of §§ 2.80 through 2.100 shall be determined as provided by § 2.86(a).

(d) The gross tonnage of a vessel measured under the provisions of §§ 2.101 through 2.104 shall be determined as provided by § 2.103.

[T.D. 66-57, 31 F.R. 4294, Mar. 11, 1966, as amended by T.D. 67-69, 32 F.R. 3388, Mar. 1, 1967]

§ 2.6 Net register tonnage.

(a) The tonnage of a vessel remaining after the authorized deductions have

been made from the gross register tonnage shall be deemed the net register tonnage. Under the provisions of 2.87 (b) a vessel may have two net tonnages. The higher net tonnage is applicable when a tonnage mark which is placed and displayed on the side of the vessel is submerged and the lower is applicable when the tonnage mark is not submerged.

(b) In ascertaining the net tonnage, no space may be deducted unless it has previously been included in the gross tonnage.

(c) The net tonnage of a vessel measured under the provisions of §§ 2.101 through 2.104 shall be determined as provided by § 2.104.

[28 F.R. 14553, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 66-57, 31 F.R. 4295, Mar. 11, 1966, T.D. 67-69, 32 F.R. 3389, Mar. 1, 1967]

§ 2.7 The marine document.

(a) The marine document of every vessel except one admeasured under the provisions of §§ 2.101 through 2.104 shall show the date and place of build, the register length, breadth, depth, and the height of the upper deck to the hull above the tonnage deck; if applicable, the depth (D,) and the length (L.) used with the tonnage mark table and the distances to the tonnage mark from the line of the upper deck and from the molded line or equivalent of the second deck; the number of decks and masts; build as to her stem and stern; capacity under the tonnage deck, that of the between decks, and also separately, permanently enclosed spaces on or above the upper deck to the hull required to be included in the gross tonnage, and the omitted spaces, whether open or closedin, on, above, or below the upper deck; the gross tonnage or tonnages; items of deduction; and the net tonnage or tonnages.

(b) The marine document of every vessel admeasured under the provisions of §§ 2.101 through 2.104 shall show the date and place of build, the register length, breadth, and depth, and the gross and net tonnages.

[T.D. 66-57, 31 F.R. 4295, Mar. 11, 1966, as amended by T.D. 67-69, 32 F.R. 3889, Mar. 1, 1967]