46 U.S.C. § 44102 Financial Responsibility to Indemnify Passengers For Nonperformance of Transportation

• Library: United States Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.L. 118-22 with Court Rules updates (published on www.congress.gov on 12/01/2023)
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 46 U.S.C. § 44102

(a) FILING REQUIREMENT.-A person in the United States may not arrange, offer, advertise, or provide transportation on a vessel to which this chapter applies unless the person has filed with the Federal Maritime Commission evidence of financial responsibility to indemnify passengers for nonperformance of the transportation.

(b) SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE.-To satisfy subsection (a), a person must file-

(1) information the Commission considers necessary; or

(2) a copy of a bond or other security, in such form as the Commission by regulation may require.

(c) AUTHORIZED ISSUER OF BOND.-If a bond is filed, it must be issued by a bonding company authorized to do business in the United States.

Cite as 46 U.S.C. § 44102

Source: Pub. L. 109-304, §7, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1554.

current through 7/7/2023

<TABLE> <TR><TD colspan="3">HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>Revised <para>Section</para> </TD> <TD>Source (U.S. Code)</TD> <TD>Source (Statutes at Large)</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>44102</TD> <TD>46 App.:817e(a) (1st-14th, 37th-last words), (b).</TD> <TD> <actcitation href="" statecd="US" actaltid="89-777">Pub. L. <actid>89-777</actid></actcitation>, <actseccitation href="" statecd="US" actaltid="89-777">§<actsec>3</actsec>(a)</actseccitation> (1st-14th, 37th-last words), (b), Nov. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 1357; <actcitation href="" statecd="US" sessionyear="1993" actaltid="103-206">Pub. L. <actid>103-206</actid></actcitation>, <actseccitation href="" statecd="US" sessionyear="1993" actaltid="103-206">title III, §<actsec>320</actsec>, Dec. 20, <sessionyear>1993</sessionyear></actseccitation>, 107 Stat. 2427.</TD> </TR> </TABLE>