---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 9077"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "9077"
heading: "Tax payer protection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/9077"
units:
  - "Chapter 116 — Coronavirus Economic Stabilization (cares Act)"
  - "Subchapter III — Economic Stabilization and Assistance to Severely Distressed Sectors of the United States Economy"
  - "Part B — Air Carrier Worker Support"
---

# §9077. Tax payer protection


The [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) may receive warrants, options, preferred stock, debt securities, notes, or other financial instruments issued by recipients of financial assistance under this part which, in the sole determination of the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9), provide appropriate compensation to the Federal Government for the provision of the financial assistance.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–136, div. A, title IV, § 4117, Mar. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 500.)