Chapter 79. To better regulate the serving of licensed officers in the merchant marine of the United States and to promote safety at sea
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CHAP. 79.— An Act To better regulate the serving of licensed officers in the merchant marine of the United States and to promote safety at sea.March 3, 1915.[[H. R. 16392](/us/bill/63/hr/16392).][[Public, No. 267](/us/pl/63/267).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That sections forty-four Steamboat inspection.hundred and forty-eight and forty-four hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and are hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 4448. That all officers licensed under the provisions of this Licensed officers to assist inspectors, point out defects, etc.[R. S., sec. 4448, p. 861, amended](/us/rs/s4448/p861).title shall assist the inspectors in their examination of any vessels to which such licensed officers belong and shall point out all defects and imperfections known to them in the hull, equipments, boilers, or machinery of such vessel, and shall also make known to the inspectors at the earliest opportunity all accidents or occurrences producing serious injury to the vessel, her equipments, boilers, or machinery, and in default thereof the license of any such officer so neglecting or refusing shall be suspended or revoked. 894 Inspector not to impart source of Information.“No inspector or supervising inspector receiving information from a licensed officer who is employed on any vessel as to defects in such vessel, or her equipments, boilers, or machinery, or that any provision of this title is being violated, shall impart the name of such licensed officer, or the source of his information, to any person other than his superiors in the Steamboat-Inspection Service.
Any inspector or supervising inspector violating this provision shall be subject to dismissal from the service. “Sec. 4449. Revocation or suspension of license on refusal of officer to perform official duties, etc.[R. S., sec. 4449, p. 861, amended](/us/rs/s4449/p861).Vol. 33, p. 1030.That if any licensed officer shall, to the hindrance of commerce, wrongfully or unreasonably refuse to perform his official duties after having signed articles or while employed on any vessel as authorized by the terms of his certificate of license, or if any pilot or engineer shall refuse to admit into the pilot house or engine room any person whom the master or owner of the vessel may desire to place there for the purpose of learning the profession, his license shall be revoked or suspended upon the same proceedings as are provided in other cases of revocation or suspension of such license.
” " Sec. 2. Conflicting laws repealed.That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 3, 1915.