---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 57108"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "57108"
heading: "Consideration of ballast and equipment in determining selling price"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/57108"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part F — Government-Owned Merchant Vessels"
  - "Chapter 571 — General Authority"
---

# §57108. Consideration of ballast and equipment in determining selling price


The Maritime Administration may not sell a [vessel](/usc/46/53501.md?p=9) until its ballast and equipment have been inventoried and their value considered in determining the selling price of the [vessel](/usc/46/53501.md?p=9).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1661.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 57108 | 46 App.:864b. | June 29, 1949, ch. 281, § 1 (proviso), 63 Stat. 349; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(36), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 156. |