§2751 — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

Summary

When an older law is replaced, any reference to that old law must be read as a reference to the matching part of the new Act. Rules or orders made under the old law keep working under the new matching part until they are changed. Headings or short captions cannot be used to decide what a provision means. Rights, duties, penalties, and cases that started before August 18, 1990 remain governed by the law that applied before that date, unless the Act says otherwise. The Act does not change admiralty and maritime law or federal district courts’ power over civil admiralty and maritime cases, and people keep any other remedies they had.

Title 33, §2751

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(a)A reference to a law replaced by this Act, including a reference in a regulation, order, or other law, is deemed to refer to the corresponding provision of this Act.

(b)An order, rule, or regulation in effect under a law replaced by this Act continues in effect under the corresponding provision of this Act until repealed, amended, or superseded.

(c)An inference of legislative construction shall not be drawn by reason of the caption or catch line of a provision enacted by this Act.

(d)Nothing in this Act shall apply to any rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before August 18, 1990, except as provided by this section, and shall be adjudicated pursuant to the law applicable on the date prior to August 18, 1990.

(e)Except as otherwise provided in this Act, this Act does not affect—

(1)admiralty and maritime law; or

(2)the jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States with respect to civil actions under admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 101–380, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 484, known as the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2701 of this title and Tables.

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