---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 911"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "911"
heading: "Guardian for minor or incompetent"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/911"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation"
---

# §911. Guardian for minor or incompetent


The [deputy commissioner](/usc/33/902.md?p=7) may require the appointment by a court of competent jurisdiction, for any [person](/usc/33/902.md?p=1) who is mentally incompetent or a minor, of a guardian or other representative to receive [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) payable to such [person](/usc/33/902.md?p=1) under this chapter and to exercise the powers granted to or to perform the duties required of such [person](/usc/33/902.md?p=1) under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 11, 44 Stat. 1431.)