TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES
DIVISION 9: LABOR
§ 9130. Agreements as to Loss of Lien or Right to Wages. No seaman shall by any agreement forfeit his lien upon the ship or be deprived of any remedy for the recovery of his wages to which he would otherwise have been entitled, and every stipulation by which any seaman consents to abandon his right to his wages in the case of the loss of the ship or to abandon any right which he may have obtained in the nature of salvage shall be wholly void and inoperative. Source: 19 TTC § 212.