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# 46 U.S.C. § 50502 - Applicability to receivers, trustees, successors, and assigns

## Text

This subtitle applies to receivers, trustees, successors, and assigns of any person to whom this subtitle applies.

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(b), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1567.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 5050246 App.:803.Sept. 7, 1916, ch. 451, § 2(d), 39 Stat. 729; June 5, 1920, ch. 250, § 38, 41 Stat. 1008.