Title 14, Coast GuardRelease 119-110
§942 Public and Commercial Vessels and Other Watercraft; Sale of Fuel, Supplies, and Services
Title 14 › SUBTITLE I — ESTABLISHMENT, POWERS, DUTIES, AND ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 9 — ADMINISTRATION › SUBCHAPTER II — MISCELLANEOUS › § 942
Summary
The Secretary may, under rules the Secretary sets, sell fuel, supplies, or services to public and commercial vessels and watercraft when they cannot get them where they are and cannot sail to the nearest port safely without risking the ship, crew, or cargo. Sales must be reasonable and paid promptly; the money goes to the same government fund and can be used for that fund’s purposes.
Full Legal Text
Title 14, §942
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The Secretary under such regulations as he may prescribe, may sell to public and commercial vessels and other watercraft, such fuel, supplies and furnish such services as may be required to meet the necessities of the vessel or watercraft if such vessel or watercraft is unable—
(1)to procure the fuel, supplies, or services from other sources at its present location; and
(2)to proceed to the nearest port where they may be obtained without endangering the safety of the ship, the health and comfort of its personnel, or the safe condition of the property carried aboard.
Sales under this section shall be at such prices as the Secretary considers reasonable. Payment will be made on a cash basis or on such other basis as will reasonably assure prompt payment. Amounts received from such a sale shall, unless otherwise directed by another provision of law, be credited to the current appropriation concerned and are available for the same purposes as that appropriation.
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Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 654 of this title as this section. 1966—Pub. L. 89–444 inserted “Public and commercial vessels and other watercraft; sale of fuel, supplies, and services” in section catchline.
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Citation
14 U.S.C. § 942
Title 14, Coast Guard
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110