---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 1153"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "1153"
heading: "Prohibition on overhaul, repair, and maintenance of Coast Guard vessels in foreign shipyards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/1153"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Establishment, Powers, Duties, and Administration"
  - "Chapter 11 — Acquisitions"
  - "Subchapter III — Procurement"
---

# §1153. Prohibition on overhaul, repair, and maintenance of Coast Guard vessels in foreign shipyards


A Coast Guard vessel the home port of which is in the United States or Guam may not be overhauled, repaired, or maintained in a shipyard outside the United States or Guam, other than in the case of voyage repairs.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–324, title III, § 311(a), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3920, § 96; amended Pub. L. 111–281, title II, § 218, Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 2918; renumbered § 1153, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 108(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4208.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 96 of this title as this section.

2010—Pub. L. 111–281 substituted “in the United States or Guam” for “in a State of the United States” and inserted “or Guam” after “outside the United States”.