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[CITE: 49USC80109]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                        SUBTITLE X--MISCELLANEOUS
 
                      CHAPTER 801--BILLS OF LADING
 
Sec. 80109. Liens under negotiable bills

    A common carrier issuing a negotiable bill of lading has a lien on 
the goods covered by the bill for--
        (1) charges for storage, transportation, and delivery (including 
    demurrage and terminal charges), and expenses necessary to preserve 
    the goods or incidental to transporting the goods after the date of 
    the bill; and
        (2) other charges for which the bill expressly specifies a lien 
    is claimed to the extent the charges are allowed by law and the 
    agreement between the consignor and carrier.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1349.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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80109.................................  49 App.:105.                     Aug. 2
9, 1916, ch. 415, Sec.  25, 39
                                                                          Stat.
 542.
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    In this section, before clause (1), the word ``If'' is omitted as 
surplus. The words ``covered by the bill'' are substituted for ``therein 
mentioned'' for clarity. In clause (1), the words ``charges for storage, 
transportation, and delivery (including demurrage and terminal 
charges)'' are substituted for ``all charges on those goods for freight, 
storage, demurrage and terminal charges . . . and all other charges 
incurred in transportation and delivery'' as being inclusive and to 
conform to section 7-307 of the Uniform Commercial Code. In clause (2), 
the words ``other charges for which the bill expressly specifies a 
lien'' are substituted for ``unless the bill expressly enumerates other 
charges for which a lien . . . In such case there shall also be a lien 
for the charges enumerated'' for clarity.
