§10801 Definitions

Summary

Defines key words used in the chapter. The words account, correspondent account, and payable-through account mean what they mean in 31 U.S.C. 5318A. Adequate maritime insurance means you must have verified proof of protection and indemnity coverage plus audited financial statements for the insurer, and it does not include insurance from companies organized in Russia or under Russian government control. The words admission, admitted, alien, and lawfully admitted for permanent residence mean what they mean in 8 U.S.C. 1101. The term Armed Forces of the Russian Federation covers specific Russian military branches, their intelligence and security services, government cyber actors, and any successor groups or proxies. Blocked property means property frozen under the President’s authority in 50 U.S.C. 1702. Critical infrastructure in Ukraine means systems or assets so vital that their loss would cause catastrophic regional or national harm; it covers 19 sectors, such as biotechnology, energy, financial services, transportation, water and wastewater, information technology, nuclear reactors, space, defense, healthcare, and others. A foreign person is anyone not a United States person. Knowing, knowingly, and knows mean actual knowledge or that a person should have known. Military invasion includes ground, amphibious, airborne, aerial bombardment or blockades, missile attacks (rockets, ballistic, cruise, hypersonic), naval bombardment or blockades, destructive cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, and attacks on territory controlled by another sovereign country, including offshore islands. A Russian person is a Russian citizen or national, or an entity organized under Russian law or under Russian government jurisdiction. A United States person is a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident, or an entity organized under U.S. law or any U.S. jurisdiction, including its foreign branches.