---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 30909"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "30909"
heading: "Security"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/30909"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Maritime Liability"
  - "Chapter 309 — Suits in Admiralty Against the United States"
---

# §30909. Security


Neither the United States nor a federally-owned corporation may be required to give a bond or admiralty stipulation in a civil action under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 6(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1519.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 30909 | 46 App.:743 (last sentence). | Mar. 9, 1920, ch. 95, § 3 (last sentence), 41 Stat. 526; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(25)(A), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 155. |

The words “civil action” are substituted for “proceeding” for consistency in this chapter and with rule 2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (28 App. U.S.C.).