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type: "LegalText"
title: "46 U.S.C. § 53303"
description: "Persons eligible to establish funds"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 46
title_name: "SHIPPING"
chapter_number: "533"
chapter_name: "CONSTRUCTION RESERVE FUNDS"
section: "53303"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 53303"
status: "current"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 46 U.S.C. § 53303 - Persons eligible to establish funds
## Text
A construction reserve fund may be established by a citizen of the United States that—
(1) is operating a vessel in the foreign or domestic commerce of the United States or in the fisheries;
(2) owns, in whole or in part, a vessel being operated in the foreign or domestic commerce of the United States or in the fisheries;
(3) was operating a vessel in the foreign or domestic commerce of the United States or in the fisheries when it was bought or requisitioned by the United States Government;
(4) owned, in whole or in part, a vessel being operated in the foreign or domestic commerce of the United States or in the fisheries when it was bought or requisitioned by the Government; or
(5) had acquired or was having constructed a vessel to operate in the foreign or domestic commerce of the United States or in the fisheries when it was bought or requisitioned by the Government.
(Pub. L. 109304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1587.)
## Notes
Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 5330346 App.:1161(b) (1st sentence words between 6th and 10th commas).June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title V, § 511(b) (1st sentence words between 6th and 10th commas), as added Oct. 10, 1940, ch. 849, 54 Stat. 1106; June 17, 1943, ch. 130, subdiv. (a), 57 Stat. 157; July 17, 1952, ch. 939, § 9, 66 Stat. 762.