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[CITE: 1USC3]

 
                       TITLE 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
                    CHAPTER 1--RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
 
Sec. 3. ``Vessel'' as including all means of water 
        transportation
        
    The word ``vessel'' includes every description of watercraft or 
other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means 
of transportation on water.

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 10 section 101; title 32 
section 101; title 37 section 101; title 46 section 2101; title 46 App. 
section 1241o.
