# Documentation for vessel personnel.

**Citation:** 49 CFR 176.7  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2026-08-18  
**Published:** Not stated

Each owner, operator, master, agent, person in charge, and charterer must ensure that vessel personnel required to have a license, certificate of registry, or merchant mariner's document by 46 CFR parts 10 and 12 possess a license, certificate or document, as appropriate.

[68 FR 23842, May 5, 2003]

## Document text

Each owner, operator, master, agent, person in charge, and charterer must ensure that vessel personnel required to have a license, certificate of registry, or merchant mariner's document by 46 CFR parts 10 and 12 possess a license, certificate or document, as appropriate.

[68 FR 23842, May 5, 2003]

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2026-08-18/title-49/section-176.7>
- Source ID: `ecfr`
- SHA-256: `2158c400dbd5ae55b42722f4179b7b27a3ae629d4232bc4f92c4c48e2b6df2fe`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T05:46:14.489Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T04:21:38.384Z
- Document slug: `49-cfr-176-7`

### Source metadata

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  "cfrTitle": 49,
  "part": "176",
  "section": "176.7",
  "subpart": "Subpart A—General",
  "corpusVersion": "2026-08-18",
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```