Title 46 — ShippingRelease 119-73

§44102 Financial responsibility to indemnify passengers for nonperformance of transportation

Title 46 › Subtitle Subtitle IV— - Regulation of Ocean Shipping › Part Part C— - Miscellaneous › Chapter CHAPTER 441— - EVIDENCE OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION › § 44102

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

You must not arrange, offer, advertise, or provide passenger transportation on a vessel covered by this law in the United States unless you have filed with the Federal Maritime Commission proof that you can pay passengers if the transportation is not performed. To meet this rule, file either information the Commission asks for or a copy of a bond or other security in the form the Commission requires. If you file a bond, it must be issued by a bonding company that is authorized to do business in the United States.

Full Legal Text

Title 46, §44102

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

Legislative History

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4410246 App.:817e(a) (1st–14th, 37th–last words), (b).Pub. L. 89–777, § 3(a) (1st–14th, 37th–last words), (b), Nov. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 1357; Pub. L. 103–206, title III, § 320, Dec. 20, 1993, 107 Stat. 2427. In subsection (c), the words “or any State thereof, or the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or any territory or possession of the United States” are omitted as unnecessary because of the definition of “United States” in chapter 1 of the revised title.

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Citation

46 U.S.C. § 44102

Title 46 — Shipping

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73