---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 9301"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "9301"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/9301"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 93 — Sureties and Surety Bonds"
---

# §9301. Definitions


In this chapter—

- (1) “person” means an individual, a trust, an estate, a partnership, and a corporation.
- (2) “eligible obligation” means any security designated as acceptable in lieu of a surety bond by the Secretary of the Treasury.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1046; Pub. L. 109–351, title IX, § 901(a), Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 2007.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 9301 | 6:15(10th, last sentences). |  |

In clause (1), the words after the semicolon are omitted as unnecessary because of the restatement.

Clause (2) is substituted for 6:15(last sentence) for consistency and to eliminate unnecessary words.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Par. (2). Pub. L. 109–351 amended par. (2) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (2) read as follows: “ ‘Government obligation’ means a public debt obligation of the United States Government and an obligation whose principal and interest is unconditionally guaranteed by the Government.”