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legal/us/code/title-46/chapter-111/section-11109.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "46 U.S.C. § 11109"
+description: "Attachment of wages"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 46
+title_name: "SHIPPING"
+chapter_number: "111"
+chapter_name: "PROTECTION AND RELIEF"
+section: "11109"
+citation: "46 U.S.C. § 11109"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc46@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t46/s11109"
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+---
+
+# 46 U.S.C. § 11109 - Attachment of wages
+
+## Text
+
+(a) Wages due or accruing to a master or seaman are not subject to attachment or arrestment from any court, except for an order of a court about the payment by a master or seaman of any part of the master’s or seaman’s wages for the support and maintenance of the spouse or minor children of the master or seaman, or both. A payment of wages to a master or seaman is valid, notwithstanding any prior sale or assignment of wages or any attachment, encumbrance, or arrestment of the wages.
+
+(b) An assignment or sale of wages or salvage made before the payment of wages does not bind the party making it, except allotments authorized by section 10315 of this title.
+
+(c) This section applies to an individual employed on a fishing vessel or any fish processing vessel.
+
+(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 580; Pub. L. 98–364, title IV, § 402(15), July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 450.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes Revised sectionSource section (U.S. Code) 1110946:601 Section 11109 limits the attachment of a seaman’s wages and establishes certain rules for the assignment of a seaman’s wages. It also applies to fishermen on fishing vessels.
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Amendments1984—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 98–364 substituted “an individual employed on a fishing vessel or any fish processing vessel” for “a fisherman on a fishing vessel”.