46 USC App 763a: Limitations
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46 USC App 763a: Limitations Text contains those laws in effect on January 2, 2001
From Title 46-AppendixCHAPTER 21-DEATH ON HIGH SEAS BY WRONGFUL ACT
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§763a. Limitations

Unless otherwise specified by law, a suit for recovery of damages for personal injury or death, or both, arising out of a maritime tort, shall not be maintained unless commenced within three years from the date the cause of action accrued.

( Pub. L. 96–382, §1, Oct. 6, 1980, 94 Stat. 1525 .)

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act Mar. 30, 1920, known as the Death on the High Seas Act, which comprises this chapter.