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RS 9:5531

Builders must affix or mark a hull plaque/number, keep substitute records if allowed, and people must not remove, obliterate, or deface the plaque or hull number before incorporation into the work.

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RS 9:5531

Builders must affix or mark a hull plaque/number, keep substitute records if allowed, and people must not remove, obliterate, or deface the plaque or hull number before incorporation into the work.

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Builders must affix or mark a hull plaque/number, keep substitute records if allowed, and people must not remove, obliterate, or deface the plaque or hull number before incorporation into the work.

§5531. Failure to affix hull number; removal of hull number; penalty If the builder shall fail to affix a plaque or to mark or stamp any materials or components, or fail to maintain records as an alternative to marking or stamping any materials or components, as provided in R.S. 9:5523, or if any person removes, other than for the purpose of repair of the ship, obliterates or defaces, or having removed for the purpose of repair of the ship fails to promptly replace a plaque affixed as provided in R.S. 9:5523, or if any person removes, obliterates or defaces the hull number marked or stamped on any materials or components as provided in R.S. 9:5523, prior to the time such materials are incorporated into the work or the components or the components are incorporated into the work, as the case may be, he shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both. Added by Acts 1975, No. 368, §1. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 374, §3.
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