---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 46102"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "46102"
heading: "Quorum"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/46102"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Regulation of Ocean Shipping"
  - "Part D — Federal Maritime Commission"
  - "Chapter 461 — Federal Maritime Commission"
---

# §46102. Quorum


A vacancy or vacancies in the membership of the Federal Maritime [Commission](/usc/46/42501.md?p=1) do not impair the power of the [Commission](/usc/46/42501.md?p=1) to execute its functions. The affirmative vote of a majority of the Commissioners serving on the [Commission](/usc/46/42501.md?p=1) is required to dispose of any matter before the [Commission](/usc/46/42501.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 4, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1489, § 302; renumbered § 46102, Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXVI [LXXXVI], § 8605(a)(3), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4765.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 302 | 46 App.:1111 note. | Reorg. Plan No. 7 of 1961, eff. Aug. 12, 1961, § 102(d), 75 Stat. 840; Pub. L. 105–258, title II, § 202, Oct. 14, 1998, 112 Stat. 1915. |

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 renumbered section 302 of this title as this section.