---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1911"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1911"
heading: "Effect on other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1911"
units:
  - "Chapter 33 — Prevention of Pollution from Ships"
---

# §1911. Effect on other laws


Authorities, requirements, and remedies of this chapter supplement and neither amend nor repeal any other authorities, requirements, or remedies conferred by any other provision of law. Nothing in this chapter shall limit, deny, amend, modify, or repeal any other authority, requirement, or remedy available to the United States or any other [person](/usc/33/1901.md?p=a-10), except as expressly provided in this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–478, § 15, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2303; Pub. L. 110–280, § 11, July 21, 2008, 122 Stat. 2615.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2008—Pub. L. 110–280 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting, diminishing, or otherwise restricting any of the authority of the Secretary under the Port and Tanker Safety Act of 1978.”