46 C.F.R. § 67.117

Vessel name designation

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(a) The owner of a vessel must designate a name for the vessel on the Application for Initial Issue, Exchange, or Replacement of Certificate of Documentation; or Redocumentation (form CG-1258) submitted to the Director, National Vessel Documentation Center:

(1) Upon application for initial documentation of the vessel; or

(2) When the owner elects to change the name of the vessel.

(b) The name designated:

(1) Must be composed of letters of the Latin alphabet or Arabic or Roman numerals;

(2) May not be identical, actually or phonetically, to any word or words used to solicit assistance at sea; and

(3) May not contain nor be phonetically identical to obscene, indecent, or profane language, or to racial or ethnic epithets.

(c) The name of a documented vessel may not be changed without the prior approval of the Director, National Vessel Documentation Center.

(d) Until such time as the owner of a vessel elects to change the name of a vessel, the provisions of paragraph (b) of this section do not apply to vessels validly documented before January 1, 1994.

[CGD 89-007, CGD 89-007a, 58 FR 60266, Nov. 15, 1993; 58 FR 65131, Dec. 13, 1993, as amended by CGD 95-014, 60 FR 31604, June 15, 1995; USCG-1998-4442, 63 FR 52191, Sept. 30, 1998]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2019–2019 · leading case: Iancu v. Brunetti, 139 S. Ct. 2294 (2019).

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Iancu v. Brunetti, 139 S. Ct. 2294 (2019). · cites it 4× “) (regulator’s objection to a monologue con- taining various “four-letter words” was not to its “point of view, but to the way in which it [wa]s expressed”); 46 CFR §67.117 (b)(3) (2018) (Coast Guard regulation prohibiting vessel names that “contain” or are “phonetically…”

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