TITLE 46 - SHIPPING

CHAPTER I - COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

SUBCHAPTER A - PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO THE PUBLIC

PART 5 - MARINE INVESTIGATION REGULATIONS - PERSONNEL ACTION

subpart b - DEFINITIONS

5.29 - Negligence.

Negligence is the commission of an act which a reasonable and prudent person of the same station, under the same circumstances, would not commit, or the failure to perform an act which a reasonable and prudent person of the same station, under the same circumstances, would not fail to perform.