Notes on commercial instruments and maritime liens : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on commercial instruments and maritime liens : US Code - Notes

SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL
Sec.
31301. Definitions.
31302. Availability of instruments, copies, and information.
31303. Certain civil actions not authorized.
31304. Liability for noncompliance.
31305. Waiver of lien rights.
31306. Declaration of citizenship.
31307. State statutes superseded.
31308. Secretary of Commerce or Transportation as mortgagee.
31309. General civil penalty.

SUBCHAPTER II - COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTS
31321. Filing, recording, and discharge.
31322. Preferred mortgages.
31323. Disclosing and incurring obligations before executing
preferred mortgages.
31324. Retention and examination of mortgages of vessels
covered by preferred mortgages.
31325. Preferred mortgage liens and enforcement.
31326. Court sales to enforce preferred mortgage liens and
maritime liens and priority of claims.
31327. Forfeiture of mortgagee interest.
[31328. Repealed.]
31329. Court sales of documented vessels.
31330. Penalties.

SUBCHAPTER III - MARITIME LIENS
31341. Persons presumed to have authority to procure
necessaries.
31342. Establishing maritime liens.
31343. Recording and discharging notices of claim of maritime
lien.

AMENDMENTS
2002 - Pub. L. 107-295, title II, Sec. 205(a)(2), Nov. 25, 2002,
116 Stat. 2096, substituted "notices of claim of maritime lien" for
"liens on preferred mortgage vessels" in item 31343.
1996 - Pub. L. 104-324, title XI, Sec. 1113(b)(3), Oct. 19, 1996,
110 Stat. 3970, struck out item 31328 "Limitations on parties
serving as trustees of mortgaged vessel interests".