---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2719"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2719"
heading: "State financial responsibility"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2719"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — Oil Pollution"
  - "Subchapter I — Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation"
---

# §2719. State financial responsibility


A State may enforce, on the [navigable waters](/usc/33/2701.md?p=21) of the State, the requirements for evidence of financial responsibility under [section 2716 of this title](/usc/33/2716.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–380, title I, § 1019, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 506.)