Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-110
§2710 Indemnification Agreements
Title 33 › CHAPTER 40 — OIL POLLUTION › SUBCHAPTER I — OIL POLLUTION LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION › § 2710
Summary
People may make contracts to insure or protect someone from liability under the law. Those contracts do not change who the law says is legally responsible for an incident. A responsible party or a guarantor can still sue others to recover costs or get money back.
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Title 33, §2710
Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)Agreements not prohibited
Nothing in this Act prohibits any agreement to insure, hold harmless, or indemnify a party to such agreement for any liability under this Act.
(b)Liability not transferred
No indemnification, hold harmless, or similar agreement or conveyance shall be effective to transfer liability imposed under this Act from a responsible party or from any person who may be liable for an incident under this Act to any other person.
(c)Relationship to other causes of action
Nothing in this Act, including the provisions of subsection (b), bars a cause of action that a responsible party subject to liability under this Act, or a guarantor, has or would have, by reason of subrogation or otherwise, against any person.
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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
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note set out under section 2701 of this title and Tables.
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33 U.S.C. § 2710
Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110