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46 U.S.C. § 11109 — Attachment of wages
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**(a)** Wages due or accruing to a master or seaman are not subject to attachment or arrestment from any court, except for an order of a court about the payment by a master or seaman of any part of the master’s or seaman’s wages for the support and maintenance of the spouse or minor children of the master or seaman, or both. A payment of wages to a master or seaman is valid, notwithstanding any prior sale or assignment of wages or any attachment, encumbrance, or arrestment of the wages.
**(b)** An assignment or sale of wages or salvage made before the payment of wages does not bind the party making it, except allotments authorized by [section 10315 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section10315&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c)** This section applies to an individual employed on a fishing vessel or any fish processing vessel.
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**(a)** Wages due or accruing to a master or seaman are not subject to attachment or arrestment from any court, except for an order of a court about the payment by a master or seaman of any part of the master’s or seaman’s wages for the support and maintenance of the spouse or minor children of the master or seaman, or both. A payment of wages to a master or seaman is valid, notwithstanding any prior sale or assignment of wages or any attachment, encumbrance, or arrestment of the wages.
**(b)** An assignment or sale of wages or salvage made before the payment of wages does not bind the party making it, except allotments authorized by [section 10315 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section10315&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c)** This section applies to an individual employed on a fishing vessel or any fish processing vessel.
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**(a)** Under prescribed regulations, a seaman may stipulate as follows in the agreement required by [section 10302 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section10302&num=0&edition=prelim) for an allotment of any part of the wages the seaman may earn:
(1) to the seaman’s grandparents, parents, spouse, sister, brother, or children;
(2) to an agency designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to handle applications for United States savings bonds, to purchase bonds for the seaman; and
(3) for deposits to be made in an account for savings or investment opened by the seaman and maintained in the seaman’s name at a savings bank or a savings institution in which the accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
**(b)** An allotment is valid only if made in writing and signed by and approved by a shipping commissioner. The shipping commissioner shall examine allotments and the parties to them to enforce compliance with the law. Stipulations for allotments made at the beginning of a voyage shall be included in the agreement and shall state the amounts and times of payment and the person to whom payments are to be made.
**(c)** Only an allotment complying with this section is lawful. A person falsely claiming qualification as an allottee under this section is liable to the United States Government for a civil penalty of not more than $500.
**(d)** The owner, charterer, managing operator, agent, or master of a vessel seeking clearance from a port of the United States shall present the agreement at the office of clearance. Clearance may be granted to a vessel only if this section has been complied with.
**(e)** This section applies to a foreign vessel whe
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TITLE 46—SHIPPING
§ 11106
vided employment on another vessel, or passage to the
port of original shipment.
§ 11106. Wages on justifiable complaint of seamen
(a) Before a seaman on a vessel of the United
States is discharged in a foreign country by a
consular officer on the seaman’s complaint that
the agreement required by this part has been
breached because the vessel is badly provisioned
or unseaworthy, or against the officers for cruel
treatment, the officer shall inquire about the
complaint. If satisfied of the justice of the com-
plaint, the consular officer shall require the
master to pay the wages due the seaman plus
one month’s additional wages and shall dis-
charge the seaman. The master shall provide the
seaman with employment on another vessel or
provide the seaman with passage on another ves-
sel to the port of original engagement, to the
most convenient port of the United States, or to
some port agreeable to the seaman.
(b) When a vessel does not have sufficient pro-
visions for the intended voyage, and the seaman
has been forced to accept a reduced ration or
provisions that are bad in quality or unfit for
use, the seaman is entitled to recover from the
master or owner an allowance, as additional
wages, that the court hearing the case considers
reasonable.
(c) Subsection (b) of this section does not
apply when the reduction in rations was for a
period during which the seaman willfully and
without sufficient cause failed to perform duties
or was lawfully under confinement on board or
on shore for misconduct, unless that reduction
can be shown to have been unreasonable.
(d) Subsection (b) of this section does not
apply to a fishing or whaling vessel or a yacht.
(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 579.)
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