---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 30301"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "30301"
heading: "Short title"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/30301"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Maritime Liability"
  - "Chapter 303 — Death on the High Seas"
---

# §30301. Short title


This chapter may be cited as the “Death on the High Seas Act”.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 6(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1511.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 30301 | 46 App.:761 note. |  |

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Act Mar. 30, 1920, ch. 111, 41 Stat. 537, which enacted chapter 21 (§ 761 et seq.) of the former Appendix to this title, was popularly known as the “Death on the High Seas Act”, prior to being repealed and restated in this chapter by Pub. L. 109–304, §§ 6(c), 19, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1509, 1710.