Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 102 Part 5.djvu/733

 PUBLIC LAW 100-710—NOV. 23, 1988

102 STAT. 4739

"(7) 'State vessel' means a vessel owned or demise chartered by the government of a State or an authority or a political subdivision of a State; "(8) 'United States', when used in a geographic sense, means the States of the United States, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States; and "(9) 'vessel of the United States' means a vessel documented under chapter 121 of this title, numbered under chapter 123 of this title, or titled under the law of a State. "[CHAPTERS 303-311—RESERVED] "CHAPTER 313—COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND MARITIME LIENS "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 State statutes superseded.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 pri? ority of claims. "31327. Forfeiture of mortgagee interest. "31328. Limitations on parties serving as trustees of mortgaged vessel interests. "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 liens on preferred mortgage vessels.

"SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL "§ 31301. Definitions "In this chapter— "(1) 'acknowledge' means making— "(A) an acknowledgment or notarization before a notary public or other official authorized by a law of the United States or a State to take acknowledgments of deeds; or "(B) a certificate issued under the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, 1961; "(2) 'district court' means— "(A) a district court of the United States (as defined in section 451 of title 28);

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