---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1403b"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1403b"
heading: "Bond liability of United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1403b"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Virgin Islands"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §1403b. Bond liability of United States


Bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to sections [1403](/usc/48/1403.md) to 1403b of this title shall not be a debt of the United States, nor shall the United States be liable thereon.


## Source credit

(Oct. 27, 1949, ch. 769, § 3, 63 Stat. 941.)