Federal · Title 46 — Shipping
46 U.S.C. § 31307: State statutes superseded
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This chapter supersedes any State statute conferring a lien on a vessel to the extent the statute establishes a claim to be enforced by a civil action in rem against the vessel for necessaries.
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