(c) "Deputy administrator" means Deputy administrator, Maritime Administration.

(d) "The service" or "Maritime Service" means the United States Maritime Service.

(e) "Commandant" means the commandant of the United States Maritime Service, the officer in charge of and directly administering the service.

(f) "Enrollees" means persons enrolled in the United States Maritime Service.

(g) "Merchant marine" means the United States merchant marine.

(h) "Merchant vessels of the United States" means oceangoing or Great Lakes vessels of 500 gross tons or over documented under the laws of the United States and engaged in the foreign or domestic commerce of the United States.

(i) "Administrative duty" means duty performed by enrollees while on operational or staff assignments.

(j) "Training duty" means duty performed by enrollees while undergoing training and instruction.

(k) "Reserve duty" means all duty which is neither administrative nor training duty as herein described. § 310.14 Enrollment and training.

Enrollment and training in the service shall be open to all American citizens who are licensed and unlicensed members of the merchant marine and who comply with the requirements prescribed in this subpart, and to citizens without previous experience in the merchant marine who desire to train for service therein and who qualify under this subpart. Applicants must possess the necessary physical, mental and moral qualifications for service at sea or for the duties to which assignment is contemplated. Graduates of schools under the jurisdiction or supervision of the Administration may be enrolled in such ranks or ratings as determined by the commandant; such ranks, grades, and ratings to be the same as are now or shall hereafter be prescribed for the personnel of the Coast Guard. In the selection of applicants

be made because of an applicant's race, creed, color or national origin. Eligibility for enrollment shall be determined by the commandant in accordance with this subpart.

§ 310.15 Allotments and expenditures.

(a) Expenditures and obligations for the service shall be limited to the allotment of funds by the Administration to the service and to authorized appropriations.

(b) Expenditure of funds may be authorized by the commandant, as required for the proper administration of the service, including pay of personnel, purchases of equipment, provisions, and supplies, expenses of medical examination, medical treatment and hospitalization, communication and travel expense, and such other expenses of an administrative or ministerial nature as may be necessary for the efficient maintenance of the service.

(c) The deputy administrator shall report to the administrator all accounts and other financial matters of the service in such manner and form and at such time as the administrator shall prescribe. § 310.16 Authority of commandant.

In compliance with applicable Federal statutes and subject to the regulations prescribed by the Administration, the commandant is authorized:

(a) To administer the service;

(b) To employ for the service, on the account of Administration, such civil employees as may be necessary for the conduct and maintenance of the service; (c) To enroll, disenroll, assign to administrative, training, or reserve duty, and release from duty the enrollees of the service;

(d) To establish and regulate the ranks, grades, and ratings of enrollees in the service;

(e) To direct and conduct the courses of training;

(f) To provide for the maintenance of order and to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary for discipline and morale;

(g) To authorize the procurement of provisions, clothing, materials, equipment, and services for the operation of the service;

(h) To dispose, under applicable federal statutes, of such materials, clothing, equipment, and supplies as shall be found to be no longer serviceable;

(i) To authorize and direct necessary travel in behalf of and on the account of the service;

(j) To prescribe all necessary forms; (k) To delegate such authority as is necessary to subordinate personnel of the service:

(1) To convene boards consisting of assigned personnel to investigate accidents to service personnel, damage to service property and any other matters or incidents which, in his opinion, require examination;

and

(m) To issue all necessary regulations, directions, instructions, memoranda for the proper administration of the service, its enrollees, employees, stations, ships, and facilities.

§ 310.17 Enrollment: Original and regular.

(a) All original enrollments, except as apprentice seaman, shall be probationary for a period not to exceed four months. The enrollment period for apprentice seamen shall be prescribed from time to time by the commandant.

(b) After the probational period of enrollment an enrollee whose conduct and qualifications are satisfactory shall be automatically considered a regular enrollee.

(c) Regular or probationary enrollees may be advanced in rank or rating when found qualified by the commandant.

(d) Every enrollee shall, upon enrollment, take an appropriate oath or affirmation, prescribed by the commandant.

(e) Every enrollee of officer rank on administrative duty shall be issued a commission signed by the administrator.

(f) Every enrollee of officer rank on reserve or training duty shall be issued a commission signed by the commandant. [Rev. G.O. 23 (WSA Function Series), 11 F.R. 7810, July 18, 1946, as amended by Amdt. 1, 18 F.R. 4892, Aug. 15, 1953]

enrollees

(b) All Maritime Service shall take physical examinations at the following times:

(1) Upon assignment to administrative or training duty or release therefrom;

(2) At least once each year while serving on administrative duty;

(3) When applying for promotion if not previously examined within two years.

(4) When applying for direct appointment, in accordance with § 310.31, if not previously examined within the preceding twelve months.

(c) Physical examination reports shall be made on a form prescribed by the commandant. Defects considered not sufficient to disqualify an enrollee from the performance of the duties of his rank may be waived by the commandant.

(d) All medical, dental, hospital and domiciliary treatment, including all necessary examinations, of all enrollees shall be obtained through the Public Health Service in so far as possible. In emergency cases and where Public Health Service or government facilities are not available, hospitalization and medical treatment in private hospitals and by private physicians may be authorized under regulations now or hereafter prescribed by the Maritime Administration or the Public Health Service.

[Rev. G.O. 23 (WSA Function Series), 11 F.R. 7810, July 18, 1946, as amended by Supp. 1, 11 F.R. 8166, July 30, 1946; Amdt. 1, 18 F.R. 4706, Aug. 8, 1953]

§ 310.19 Duty.

(a) Duty status in the service may be administrative, training or reserve.

(b) Enrollees may be placed in a reserve duty status subject to assignment to or return to administrative or training duty as determined by the commandant.

(c) Enrollees may be maintained on administrative duty for such periods as may be determined by the commandant.

(d) While actually attending one of the State Maritime Academies under federal regulations, cadets may be en

rolled in the Maritime Service and placed on training duty. While in such status, they will be entitled to the pay provided for cadets.

§ 310.20 Disenrollment: Voluntary and involuntary.

(a) Subject to applicable Federal statutes and regulations, any enrollee in the service may be disenrolled upon request. The disenrollment shall be effective on the date of action on such request.

(b) Any enrollee may be disenrolled from the service for cause, for any of the following reasons:

(1) During the probationary period of original enrollment or while in training or on administrative duty thereafter, for conduct or qualifications deemed unsatisfactory to the service.

(2) For failure to serve 24 months in any period of 36 consecutive months on merchant vessels of the United States. When computing any 36 month period under this subsection, active duty in the military or naval establishment of the United States, or on administrative or training duty with the Maritime Service, shall be excluded.

(3) For failure in such period of 36 consecutive months to serve any period or periods required on administrative or training duty in the service.

(4) For physical or mental disability. (5) For conduct such as to bring discredit upon the service.

(c) Any person disenrolled for cause may, upon removal of the disability or upon other correction of the cause of disenrollment, be reenrolled in the service.

(a) (1) Enrollees of the Maritime Service while on active administrative duty shall receive the same pay and allowances according to cumulative years of service of their respective ranks, grades and ratings as are now or shall hereafter be prescribed for personnel of the Coast Guard with similar ranks, grades and ratings in Titles II and III of the "Career-Compensation Act of 1949" (Pub. Law 351, 81st Cong.), amended by sections 1 (a), (b) and (d), 3 and 5, Public Law 346, 82d Congress, approved May 19, 1952; 66 Stat. 79, including the rank of Commodore as au

as

thorized by 55 Stat. 604 as amended: Provided, however, That enrollees below officer rank who are entitled to receive basic allowances for quarters shall be entitled to an increase of such allowances in an amount equivalent to fourteen (14) per cent of the monthly rates according to the pay grade to which assigned or in which distributed for basic pay purposes as provided in section 302(f), 63 Stat. 812; 37 U.S.C. 252.

(2) Service creditable in the computation of basic pay as prescribed in Public Law 351, 81st Congress, shall include, but not be restricted to, enrollment in the Maritime Service on administrative duty, active or reserve.

(3) Enrollees of the Maritime Service in a training status shall until June 30, 1950, as provided by existing appropriations, continue to receive the monthly rates of pay which have been effective since July 1, 1949, as follows: Cadets and recruits_ Licensed officers.. Unlicensed seamen..

$65.00

125.00

75.00

(4) Travel, transportation and subsistence for enrollees of the Maritime Service in a training status shall be prescribed by Maritime Service Instructions.

(b) After June 30, 1946, an enrollee paid at the rates prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section shall not be paid additional compensation for administrative duty. Pay and allowances for administrative duty in effect on June 30, 1946, shall be granted if such pay and allowances are greater than the pay prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section. When promoted, an enrollee shall receive the pay of his new grade or rating as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section or the same pay (including administrative duty allowance) as he received for his lower grade as of June 30, 1946, whichever is the greater.

(c) Longevity pay for all enrollees on administrative duty shall be added to the base pay of said enrollees under rules similar to those now or hereafter provided for such pay of the corresponding ranks, grades and ratings of the Coast Guard.

(d) Retirement and disability pay for officers and enlisted men shall be allowed under laws, rules and regulations now or hereafter applicable to the Coast Guard.

All service under the federal government shall count toward retirement and in the computation of retirement pay.

(e) Pay shall be computed on the basis of 30 days per month. An enrollee shall be credited, in the computation of his pay, with allowances for each day, or fractions thereof, on which duty is performed. He shall not be paid when absent from duty unless on authorized annual or sick leave.

[G.O. 23, Rev. (WSA Function Series), 11 F.R. 7810, July 18, 1946, as amended by Supp. 1, 11 F.R. 8166, July 30, 1946; Supp. 2, 11 F.R. 13792, Nov. 23, 1946; Supp. 3, 14 F.R. 7707, Dec. 24, 1949; Amdt. 1 to Supp. 3, 17 F.R. 5142, June 6, 1952] § 310.22

Transportation and travel.

(a) Enrollees upon original enrollment may, in lieu of any other travel allowance, be furnished transportation, including sleeping car or stateroom accommodations from the place of enrollment to a training station or training vessel.

(b) An enrollee who is disenrolled or released to reserve duty, except at his request or for reasons within his control, may be furnished transportation including pullman or sleeping car accommodations from the place of disenrollment to the place of enrollment. An enrollee disenrolled at his request or for reasons within his control before the completion of his probationary period shall not be entitled to travel allowance or to transportation in kind.

(c) The commandant shall prescribe the travel allowances and transportation in kind for probationary enrollees originally enrolled in the seventh pay grade in connection with their original enrollment, release from administrative or training duty, or disenrollment, and shall have authority to transport them to such place or places as may be determined to be for the interest of the government.

[G.O. 23, Rev. (WSA Function Series), 11 F.R. 7810, July 18, 1946, as amended by Supp. 3, 14 F.R. 7707, Dec. 24, 1949]

§ 310.23 Transportation of dependents and household effects.

Enrollees on administrative duty shall be entitled to the same allowances for transporting dependents and household effects as are now or may hereafter be prescribed for officers and men in the Coast Guard.

§ 310.24 Clothing and equipment.

(a) Officers and warrant officers of the service, on administrative duty where uniforms are required to be worn, shall be entitled to a cash allowance for uniforms in the amount of $250, after having served a satisfactory 3 month period of administrative duty, and provided they agree in writing to serve at least one year, and certify that they have the required uniforms and insignia in their possession. The uniforms required shall be, in number and kind, the same as prescribed for officers of the United States Coast Guard going on active duty, but Maritime Service insignia shall be worn with all uniforms. Deduction from the uniform allowance shall be made for any articles of uniform obtained on purchase orders, or otherwise issued from Maritime Service supplies.

(b) Enrollees below the rank of warrant officers of the service shall be supplied, without charge, with such clothing and equipment as fixed through clothing bounties approved by the commandant. Other government property may also be loaned to such personnel. Enrollees on administrative duty may purchase regulation uniforms and accessories, the cost thereof to be deducted from their pay.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person, not an enrollee or officer of the Maritime Service, to wear the duly prescribed uniform or insignia of the Maritime Service or any distinctive part of such uniform or insignia, or a uniform or insignia, any part of which is similar to a distinctive part of the duly prescribed uniform or insignia of said service. Any enrollee or officer who resigns or is disenrolled for cause from the Maritime Service shall, upon such resignation or disenrollment for cause, surrender all insignia attached to his uniform or uniforms, to the responsible officer of any Maritime Service unit. Failure to comply with the foregoing regulations shall be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

§ 310.25 Subsistence.

(a) [Reserved]

(b) Subsistence at government expense shall be supplied to all members of the service while on administrative duty, except officers and warrant officers. General messes shall be established at training stations and on board training vessels as may be necessary. Such general messes shall be conducted in the

manner provided in pay and supply instructions for general messes. A subsistence allowance at the rate of 75 cents per day while on training duty will be paid for each cadet enrolled at the State Maritime Academies under federal regulation who is also enrolled in the Maritime Service. This subsistence allowance may be paid monthly to the State Maritime Academies for the number of Icadets and for the number of days on which subsistence is actually furnished by the State Maritime Academies. While the State Maritime Academy cadets are cruising on a Maritime Service vessel, this subsistence allowance will not be paid but subsistence will be furnished by the Maritime Service in kind. (c) [Reserved]

(d) [Reserved]

(e) Determination as to availability of government quarters and messing facilities shall be made by the commandant. [Rev. G.O. 23 (WSA Function Series), 11 F.R. 7810, July 18, 1946, as amended by Supp. 1, 11 F.R. 8166, July 30, 1946; Supp. 3, 14 F.R. 7707, Dec. 24, 1949]

§ 310.26 Loss or damage.

There may be deducted from the pay of any member of the service sums sufficient to cover the value of any Government property lost or willfully damaged by such person.

§ 310.27 Death of enrollees.

The commandant, subject to the provisions of existing and applicable laws, is authorized to incur expenses in connection with the transportation and burial of the remains of enrollees who die while on administrative or training duty.

§ 310.30 Courses of training.

The courses of training at stations and on ships shall be appropriate to the duties performed aboard merchant vessels by enrollees under their licenses or certificates and shall include the following subjects: lifeboat instruction, including rowing; emergency drills, including fire and abandon ship; maritime law pertaining to seamen; hygiene and first aid; navigation; seamanship; signals; marine engineering; engine room and fire room routine; shop work and overhaul of machinery; care of staterooms, quarters and supplies; procurement, handling, and cooking of food: serving of food and care of tableware (mess gear); and instruction in special ratings, such as radio operators, electricians, and clerical workers.

§ 310.31

Direct appointment of officers from the merchant marine.

(a) Any officer of the merchant marine is eligible to be enrolled in the service in a rank commensurate with his position and duties in the merchant marine without attending a training school providing he qualified under this subpart. (b) The following qualifications are prescribed for such appointment:

(1) An applicant must be a licensed officer of the merchant marine serving on a vessel documented under the laws of the United States of not less than 1,000 gross tons: Provided, however, That an applicant with outstanding qualifications may be specially appointed by the commandant.

(2) An applicant must be employed in connection with the operation or management of ships of the merchant marine, or in connection with the training of personnel for the merchant marine, or the applicant's services must be desired for special duty.

(3) An applicant in the staff branch must be serving under a license or certificate issued by appropriate authority and so qualifying him for the rating.

(4) An applicant must have been employed in his present capacity aboard ship for at least one year immediately preceding the filing of his application, unless considered otherwise qualfied by the commandant.

(5) During wartime the applicant must agree, if requested, to take such extension and correspondence courses under such rules and regulations and upon such terms as the commandant may prescribe.