Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 40 — Oil Pollution
§ 2710. Indemnification agreements
Statutory text
Agreements not prohibited
Nothing in this Act prohibits any agreement to insure, hold harmless, or indemnify a party to such agreement for any liability under this Act.
Liability not transferred
No indemnification, hold harmless, or similar agreement or conveyance shall be effective to transfer liability imposed under this Act from a responsible party or from any person who may be liable for an incident under this Act to any other person.
Relationship to other causes of action
Nothing in this Act, including the provisions of subsection (b), bars a cause of action that a responsible party subject to liability under this Act, or a guarantor, has or would have, by reason of subrogation or otherwise, against any person.
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 § 1010 · 104 Stat. 484
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2710
(Pub. L. 101–380, title I, § 1010, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 498.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–380, title I, § 1010, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 498.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1010. INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENTS. (a) Agreements Not Prohibited.— Nothing in this Act prohibits any agreement to insure, hold harmless, or indemnify a party to such agreement for any liability under this Act. (b) Liability Not Transferred.— No indemnification, hold harmless, or similar agreement or conveyance shall be effective to trans-fer liability imposed under this Act from a responsible party or from any person who may be liable for an incident under this Act to any other person. (c) Relationship To Other Causes of Action.— Nothing in this Act, including the provisions of subsection (b), bars a cause of action that a responsible party subject to liability under this Act, or a guarantor, has or would have, by reason of subrogation or otherwise, against any person.
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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.