46 USC § 57518 - Performance bond

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title: "46 USC § 57518 - Performance bond"
title_number: 46
title_name: "SHIPPING"
section_number: "57518"
section_name: "Performance bond"
chapter_number: 575
chapter_name: "CONSTRUCTION, CHARTER, AND SALE OF VESSELS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "CHARTERS"
part_number: "F"
part_name: "Government-Owned Merchant Vessels"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1667.)"
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# § 57518. Performance bond

The Secretary of Transportation shall require a charterer of a vessel of the Secretary to deposit with the Secretary an undertaking, with approved sureties, in such amount as the Secretary may require as security for the faithful performance of the terms of the charter, including indemnity against liens on the chartered vessel.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1667.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 57518 | 46 App.:1200. | June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title VII, § 710, 49 Stat. 2010; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(112), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 163. |