(ii) no such vessel may be sold, traded, chartered, donated, scrapped, or in any way altered or disposed of without the prior approval of the Secretary; (iii) no such vessel may be used in competition with any privately owned vessel documented under the laws of the United States or any State, unless necessary to carry out the purposes of this subsection; (iv) any approved maritime training institution in possession of such a vessel which can no longer utilize the vessel for training purposes shall return the vessel to the Secretary, who shall take possession of the vessel at the training institution and thereafter may dispose of the vessel, or provide the vessel to another approved maritime training institution, as the Secretary determines appropriate; and (v) such other requirements or conditions as the Secretary determines appropriate. (4) The vessels referred to in paragraph (2)(A) are United States-built offshore supply vessels and United States-built tug/ supply vessels in the possession of the Maritime Administration as a result of defaults on loans guaranteed under title XI of this Act. SEC. 1306. [46 App. U.S.C. 1295e] (a) The Secretary may establish and maintain a voluntary organization for the training of citizens of the United States to serve on merchant marine vessels of the United States to be known as the United States Maritime Service. (b) The Secretary may determine the number of individuals to be enrolled for training and reserve purposes in such service, to fix the rates of pay and allowances of such individuals without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code (relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates), to prescribe the course of study and the periods of training in such service, and to prescribe the uniform of such service and the rules governing the wearing and furnishing of such uniform. (c) The ranks, grades, and ratings for personnel of the United States Maritime Service shall be the same as are then prescribed for the personnel of the United States Coast Guard. SEC. 1307. [46 App. U.S.C. 1295f] (a) As used in this section, the term "civilian nautical school" means any school operated and conducted in the United States (except the Academy maintained under section 1303, any State maritime academy assisted under section 1304, and any other school operated by the United States or any agency of the United States) which offers instruction to individuals quartered on board any vessel for the primary purpose of training them for service in the merchant marine. (b) Each civilian nautical school shall be subject to examination and inspection by the Secretary, and the Secretary may (under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe) provide for the rating and certification of such schools as to the adequacy of the course of instruction, the competency of the instructors, and the suitability of the equipment used by, or in connection with, such school. [(e) repealed by section 4(b) of Public Law 98-89.] (d) Whoever— (1) violates this section or any regulations promulgated to implement this section; shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, for each offense. SEC. 1308. [46 App. U.S.C. 1295g] (a) The Secretary shall establish such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this title. (b) The Secretary may cooperate with and assist the Academy, any State maritime academy, and any nonprofit training institution which has been jointly approved by the Secretary and the Secretary of the department in which the United States Coast Guard is operating as offering training courses which meet Federal regulations for maritime training, by making vessels, shipboard equipment, and other marine equipment, owned by the United States which have been determined to be excess or surplus, available by gift, loan, sale, lease, or charter to such institution for instructional purposes on such terms as the Secretary deems appropriate. (c)(1) The Secretary may secure directly from any department or agency of the United States any information, facilities, or equipment, on a reimbursable basis, necessary to carry out this title. (2) Upon the request of the Secretary, the head of any department or agency of the United States (including any military department of the United States) may detail, on a reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of such department or agency to the Secretary to assist in carrying out this title. (d) To carry out this title, the Secretary may employ at the Academy any individual as a professor, lecturer, or instructor, without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code (governing appointments in the competitive service), and may pay such individual without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title (relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates). MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 1920 (Approved June 5, 1920, Chapter 250; 41 Stat. 988) AN ACT To provide for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine, to repeal certain emergency legislation, and provide for the disposition, regulation, and use of property acquired thereunder, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, [46 App. U.S.C. 861] That it is necessary for the national defense and for the proper growth of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency, ultimately to be owned and operated privately by citizens of the United States; and it is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to do whatever may be necessary to develop and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine, and, insofar as may not be inconsistent with the express provisions of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall, in the disposition of vessels and shipping property as hereinafter provided, in the making of rules and regulations, and in the administration of the shipping laws keep always in view this purpose and object as the primary end to be obtained. [Section 2 repealed by section 202(4) of Public Law 100-710] [Section 3 repealed by section 903(b) of the Act of June 29, 1936] SEC. 6. [46 App. U.S.C. 865] That the Secretary of Transportation is authorized and empowered to sell to aliens, at such prices and on such terms and conditions as he may determine, not inconsistent with the provisions of section 51 (except that completion of the payment of the purchase price and interest shall not be deferred more than ten years after the making of the contract of sale), such vessels as he shall, after careful investigation, deem unnecessary to the promotion and maintenance of an efficient American merchant marine; but no such sale shall be made unless the Secretary of Transportation, after diligent effort, has been unable to sell, in accordance with the terms and conditions of section 5,1 such vessels to persons citizens of the United States, and has determined to make such sale; and he shall make as part of his records a full statement of his reasons for making such sale. Deferred payments of purchase price of vessels under this section 1 Section 5 was repealed by section 202(4) of Public Law 100-710 (102 Stat. 4753). |