---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 50502"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "50502"
heading: "Applicability to receivers, trustees, successors, and assigns"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/50502"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 505 — Other General Provisions"
---

# §50502. Applicability to receivers, trustees, successors, and assigns


This subtitle applies to receivers, trustees, successors, and assigns of any [person](/usc/46/53101.md?p=6) to whom this subtitle applies.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(b), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1567.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 50502 | 46 App.:803. | Sept. 7, 1916, ch. 451, § 2(d), 39 Stat. 729; June 5, 1920, ch. 250, § 38, 41 Stat. 1008. |