Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 40 — Oil Pollution
§ 2709. Contribution
Statutory text
A person may bring a civil action for contribution against any other person who is liable or potentially liable under this Act or another law. The action shall be brought in accordance with section 2717 of this title.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Oil Pollution Act of 1990
Pub. L. 101–380 title I § 1009 · 104 Stat. 484
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2709
(Pub. L. 101–380, title I, § 1009, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 497.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–380, title I, § 1009, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 497.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1009. CONTRIBUTION. A person may bring a civil action for contribution against any other person who is liable or potentially liable under this Act or another law. The action shall be brought in accordance with section 1017.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 101–380, , 104 Stat. 484, known as the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2701 of this title and Tables.