---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 3009"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "3009"
heading: "United States marshals’ authority to designate keeper"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/3009"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 176 — Federal Debt Collection Procedure"
  - "Subchapter A — Definitions and General Provisions"
---

# §3009. United States marshals’ authority to designate keeper


Whenever a [United States marshal](/usc/28/3002.md?p=16) is authorized to seize [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) pursuant to this chapter, the [United States marshal](/usc/28/3002.md?p=16) may designate another [person](/usc/28/3002.md?p=10) or Federal [agency](/usc/28/2341.md?p=3) to hold for safekeeping such [property](/usc/28/3002.md?p=12) seized.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–647, title XXXVI, § 3611, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4937.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Nov. 29, 1990, and applicable with respect to certain actions for debts owed the United States pending in court on that effective date, see section 3631 of Pub. L. 101–647, set out as a note under section 3001 of this title.