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[CITE: 46USC11106]

 
                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
                     Subtitle II--Vessels and Seamen
 
              Part G--Merchant Seamen Protection and Relief
 
                   CHAPTER 111--PROTECTION AND RELIEF
 
Sec. 11106. Wages on justifiable complaint of seamen

    (a) Before a seaman on a vessel of the United States is discharged 
in a foreign country by a consular officer on the seaman's complaint 
that the agreement required by this part has been breached because the 
vessel is badly provisioned or unseaworthy, or against the officers for 
cruel treatment, the officer shall inquire about the complaint. If 
satisfied of the justice of the complaint, the consular officer shall 
require the master to pay the wages due the seaman plus one month's 
additional wages and shall discharge the seaman. The master shall 
provide the seaman with employment on another vessel or provide the 
seaman with passage on another vessel to the port of original 
engagement, to the most convenient port of the United States, or to some 
port agreeable to the seaman.
    (b) When a vessel does not have sufficient provisions for the 
intended voyage, and the seaman has been forced to accept a reduced 
ration or provisions that are bad in quality or unfit for use, the 
seaman is entitled to recover from the master or owner an allowance, as 
additional wages, that the court hearing the case considers reasonable.
    (c) Subsection (b) of this section does not apply when the reduction 
in rations was for a period during which the seaman willfully and 
without sufficient cause failed to perform duties or was lawfully under 
confinement on board or on shore for misconduct, unless that reduction 
can be shown to have been unreasonable.
    (d) Subsection (b) of this section does not apply to a fishing or 
whaling vessel or a yacht.

(Pub. L. 98-89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 579.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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          Revised section                Source section (U.S. Code)
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11106(a)..........................  46:685
11106(b)-(d)......................  46:665
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    Section 11106 provides compensation to seamen on United States 
vessels when a shipping agreement is breached. It does not apply to 
fishing vessels, whaling vessels or yachts.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 11503 of this title.
