Document Category Maritime Laws

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Act Creating the Commercial Court (2010)	2010, Banking, Business and Commerce Laws, Corporate Law, Human Rights Law, Judiciary Laws, Land Laws, Maritime Laws, Procedural Laws, Property Laws	2010 Acts, 2025, access to justice, admiralty law, appeals, Appellate Review, appointment of judges, arbitration law, banking and finance law, business law, civil law, commercial arbitration, Commercial Court, commercial jurisdiction, Commercial Law, commercial litigation, Concurrent Jurisdiction, Contract Law, Corporate Law, court financing, court procedures, court structure, debt recovery, economic governance, enforcement of arbitral awards, establishment of Commercial Court, Executive Law, financial law, foreclosure, Good Governance Law, human rights law, investment law, judicial accountability, Judicial Administration, judicial reform, judiciary independence, Judiciary Law, land law, Liberia Commercial Code, maritime law, Montserrado County, mortgages, Procedural Law, Rule of Law, secured transactions, specialized courts, summary judgment, tax law, tenure of judges, Title 17 Judiciary Law, transparency and accountability	Download	act-creating-the-commercial-court-2010	2010-acts 2025 access-to-justice admiralty-law appeals appellate-review appointment-of-judges arbitration-law banking-and-finance-law business-law civil-law commercial-arbitration commercial-court commercial-jurisdiction commercial-law commercial-litigation concurrent-jurisdiction contract-law corporate-law court-financing court-procedures court-structure debt-recovery economic-governance enforcement-of-arbitral-awards establishment-of-commercial-court executive-law financial-law foreclosure good-governance-law human-rights-law investment-law judicial-accountability judicial-administration judicial-reform judiciary-independence judiciary-law land-law liberia-commercial-code maritime-law montserrado-county mortgages procedural-law rule-of-law secured-transactions specialized-courts summary-judgment tax-law tenure-of-judges title-17-judiciary-law transparency-and-accountability	2010 banking-business-and-commerce-laws corporate-law human-rights-law judiciary-laws land-laws maritime-laws procedural-laws property-laws legislative-acts-by-year legistlative-acts
An Act to Amend and restate Chapter 3_ Preferred Ship Mortgages and Maritime Liens on Liberian Vessels, of the Liberian Maritime Law, Title 21 (2022)	2022, Banking, Business and Commerce Laws, Corporate Law, Maritime Laws	abolition of mortgage endorsement, admiralty jurisdiction, admiralty law, advances and repayments, amendments and assignments, bills of sale, builder’s mortgage, central office, certificate of ownership and encumbrance, certified extract of index, Commercial Law, Commissioner, contingent obligations, crew wages, currency denomination, Deputy Commissioner, discharge and partial discharge, discharge of financing charter, disclosure of liens, effect of amendment, enforcement abroad, financing charter, foreclosure, future advances, general average, in personam action, in rem action, insolvency of foreign mortgagee, interest (including interest on interest), Liberian maritime law, Liberian vessels, maritime law, maritime liens, maximum secured amount, mortgage pursuant to agreement, necessary supplies lien, notice of mortgage on board, penalty for fraud, preferred mortgage, preferred mortgage index, preferred ship mortgages, priority of liens, recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings, recordation, relevant index, salvage, secured transactions, ship mortgage, ship registration, ship under construction, stay of proceedings, Title 21 Liberia Code of Laws Revised, tort liens, units of account, waiver of lien	Download	an-act-to-amend-and-restate-chapter-3_-preferred-ship-mortgages-and-maritime-liens-on-liberian-vessels	abolition-of-mortgage-endorsement admiralty-jurisdiction admiralty-law advances-and-repayments amendments-and-assignments bills-of-sale builders-mortgage central-office certificate-of-ownership-and-encumbrance certified-extract-of-index commercial-law commissioner contingent-obligations crew-wages currency-denomination deputy-commissioner discharge-and-partial-discharge discharge-of-financing-charter disclosure-of-liens effect-of-amendment enforcement-abroad financing-charter foreclosure future-advances general-average in-personam-action in-rem-action insolvency-of-foreign-mortgagee interest-including-interest-on-interest liberian-maritime-law liberian-vessels maritime-law maritime-liens maximum-secured-amount mortgage-pursuant-to-agreement necessary-supplies-lien notice-of-mortgage-on-board penalty-for-fraud preferred-mortgage preferred-mortgage-index preferred-ship-mortgages priority-of-liens recognition-of-foreign-insolvency-proceedings recordation relevant-index salvage secured-transactions ship-mortgage ship-registration ship-under-construction stay-of-proceedings title-21-liberia-code-of-laws-revised tort-liens units-of-account waiver-of-lien	2022 banking-business-and-commerce-laws corporate-law maritime-laws legislative-acts-by-year legistlative-acts
An Act to Amend the Liberia Maritime Law Affecting Lease Financing of Vessels Mortgages (2018)	2018, Banking, Business and Commerce Laws, Corporate Law, Fisheries Law, Maritime Laws, Traffic Laws	admiralty law, age limits of vessels, bareboat charter, bareboat charter registration, bills of sale, builder’s certificates, builder’s mortgage, certificates of registry, Commercial Law, Commissioner of Maritime Affairs, crew certification, Deputy Commissioner, enforcement of maritime liens, finance charterer, financing charter, foreign preferred ship mortgages, foreign vessel registration, insolvency of foreign mortgagee, inter-creditor agreements, international maritime standards, judicial sale of vessels, labor law maritime sector, lease financing of vessels, Liberian flag registry, lien of preferred mortgage, maritime administration, maritime law, maritime liens, maritime regulations, mortgage amendments, mortgage assignments, mortgage priority, mortgage recordation, necessaries lien, permanent registry, preferred ship mortgages, provisional registry, public vessel register, recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings, recognition of foreign mortgages, recording of encumbrances, right to fly Liberian flag, sale of vessels, seafarers’ labor contracts, seamen’s employment protections, security interests, ship mortgages, ship registration, ship under construction, subordination agreements, Supreme Court of Liberia, tonnage requirements, vessel conveyance, vessel documentation, vessel eligibility, waiver of registration requirements, withdrawal of flag	Download	an-act-to-amend-the-liberia-maritime-law-affecting-lease-financing-of-vessels-mortgages-2018	admiralty-law age-limits-of-vessels bareboat-charter bareboat-charter-registration bills-of-sale builders-certificates builders-mortgage certificates-of-registry commercial-law commissioner-of-maritime-affairs crew-certification deputy-commissioner enforcement-of-maritime-liens finance-charterer financing-charter foreign-preferred-ship-mortgages foreign-vessel-registration insolvency-of-foreign-mortgagee inter-creditor-agreements international-maritime-standards judicial-sale-of-vessels labor-law-maritime-sector lease-financing-of-vessels liberian-flag-registry lien-of-preferred-mortgage maritime-administration maritime-law maritime-liens maritime-regulations mortgage-amendments mortgage-assignments mortgage-priority mortgage-recordation necessaries-lien permanent-registry preferred-ship-mortgages provisional-registry public-vessel-register recognition-of-foreign-insolvency-proceedings recognition-of-foreign-mortgages recording-of-encumbrances right-to-fly-liberian-flag sale-of-vessels seafarers-labor-contracts seamens-employment-protections security-interests ship-mortgages ship-registration ship-under-construction subordination-agreements supreme-court-of-liberia tonnage-requirements vessel-conveyance vessel-documentation vessel-eligibility waiver-of-registration-requirements withdrawal-of-flag	2018 banking-business-and-commerce-laws corporate-law fisheries-law maritime-laws traffic-laws legislative-acts-by-year legistlative-acts
Environmental Protection & Management Law of 2002	2002, Agriculture Laws, Environmental Laws, Health Laws, Maritime Laws, Natural Resources Law	access to environmental information, Administrative Law, afforestation, air quality standards, biodiversity conservation, citizen suit, climate change mitigation, coastal zone management, corporate liability, effluent discharge license, EIA license, emission license, enforcement powers, Environment Protection and Management Law of Liberia, environmental audit, environmental compliance, Environmental Court, Environmental Court of Appeals, environmental education, environmental governance, environmental impact assessment, environmental inspectors, environmental justice, environmental law, environmental monitoring, Environmental Protection Agency, environmental quality standards, environmental restoration order, EPA Act, forest management, forfeiture and sanctions, genetic resources, hazardous waste import ban, hazardous waste management, inspection and seizure, intergenerational equity, international environmental treaties, land use planning, marine environment, mitigation plan, natural resources law, noise pollution, offences and penalties, oil pollution, ozone layer protection, polluter pays principle, pollution control, precautionary principle, public hearing, public law, public participation, radiation control, reforestation, regulations, renewable energy, restoration and remediation, right to a clean and healthy environment, scoping process, soil quality standards, solid waste management, spill liability, Supreme Court of Liberia, sustainable development, toxic substances, transboundary environmental harm, waste disposal license, water quality standards, wetlands protection, wildlife protection	Download	environmental-protection-management-law-of-2002	access-to-environmental-information administrative-law afforestation air-quality-standards biodiversity-conservation citizen-suit climate-change-mitigation coastal-zone-management corporate-liability effluent-discharge-license eia-license emission-license enforcement-powers environment-protection-and-management-law-of-liberia environmental-audit environmental-compliance environmental-court environmental-court-of-appeals environmental-education environmental-governance environmental-impact-assessment environmental-inspectors environmental-justice environmental-law environmental-monitoring environmental-protection-agency environmental-quality-standards environmental-restoration-order epa-act forest-management forfeiture-and-sanctions genetic-resources hazardous-waste-import-ban hazardous-waste-management inspection-and-seizure intergenerational-equity international-environmental-treaties land-use-planning marine-environment mitigation-plan natural-resources-law noise-pollution offences-and-penalties oil-pollution ozone-layer-protection polluter-pays-principle pollution-control precautionary-principle public-hearing public-law public-participation radiation-control reforestation regulations renewable-energy restoration-and-remediation right-to-a-clean-and-healthy-environment scoping-process soil-quality-standards solid-waste-management spill-liability supreme-court-of-liberia sustainable-development toxic-substances transboundary-environmental-harm waste-disposal-license water-quality-standards wetlands-protection wildlife-protection	2002 agriculture-laws environmental-laws health-laws maritime-laws natural-resources-law legislative-acts-by-year legistlative-acts
Fisheries and Aquaculture Management and Development Law of 2019	2019, Agriculture Laws, Customary Laws, Environmental Laws, Executive Law, Fisheries Law, Maritime Laws, Natural Resources Law, Traffic Laws	Administrative Law, administrative penalties, aquaculture law, aquaculture licensing, aquaculture regulation, aquatic ecosystems, arrest and detention, artisanal fisheries, biodiversity protection, biosecurity, boarding and inspection, bond and surety, burden of proof, citizen suits, civil liability of officers, co-management fisheries associations, commercial aquaculture, compensation and restitution, corporate liability, customary fishing rights, customary law, declaratory relief, denial of port entry, denial of port services, Director General powers, electronic evidence, enforcement and penalties, environmental audit, environmental compliance, environmental impact assessment, environmental law, evidence and presumptions, FAD authorization, FAD confiscation, FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, fines and imprisonment, fish aggregating devices, fish processing regulation, fish safety and quality standards, fisheries access agreements, fisheries accreditation, Fisheries Advisory Council, Fisheries and Aquaculture Management and Development Law, fisheries authorization, fisheries authorizations, fisheries governance, fisheries impact assessment, fisheries inspectors, fisheries law, fisheries licensing, fisheries management plans, fishing vessel licensing, food security law, foreign fishing vessels, forfeiture and fines, forfeiture of vessels and gear, hot pursuit, illegal unreported and unregulated fishing, import export of live fish, industrial fisheries, injunctions, injunctive relief, inland fisheries, inshore exclusion zone, international fisheries cooperation, invasive species control, IUU fishing, judicial enforcement, jurisdiction of Circuit Court, Liberia Maritime Authority, marine conservation, maritime law, MCS, monitoring control and surveillance, NaFAA, National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority, natural resources law, observers program, offences and penalties, performance bond, photographic evidence, port state measures, post-harvest fisheries activities, recreational fisheries, regulations making power, research fishing authorization, safety standards, security for release, seizure and forfeiture, semi-industrial fisheries, shark fishing prohibition, stakeholder consultation, subsistence aquaculture, summary administrative proceedings, sustainable development, transhipment regulation, vessel monitoring system, vessel registration, VMS	Download	act-to-amend-national-fisheries-and-aquaculture-authority-nafaa-law-2019 fisheries-and-aquaculture-management-and-development-law-of-2019	administrative-law administrative-penalties aquaculture-law aquaculture-licensing aquaculture-regulation aquatic-ecosystems arrest-and-detention artisanal-fisheries biodiversity-protection biosecurity boarding-and-inspection bond-and-surety burden-of-proof citizen-suits civil-liability-of-officers co-management-fisheries-associations commercial-aquaculture compensation-and-restitution corporate-liability customary-fishing-rights customary-law declaratory-relief denial-of-port-entry denial-of-port-services director-general-powers electronic-evidence enforcement-and-penalties environmental-audit environmental-compliance environmental-impact-assessment environmental-law evidence-and-presumptions fad-authorization fad-confiscation fao-code-of-conduct-for-responsible-fisheries fines-and-imprisonment fish-aggregating-devices fish-processing-regulation fish-safety-and-quality-standards fisheries-access-agreements fisheries-accreditation fisheries-advisory-council fisheries-and-aquaculture-management-and-development-law fisheries-authorization fisheries-authorizations fisheries-governance fisheries-impact-assessment fisheries-inspectors fisheries-law fisheries-licensing fisheries-management-plans fishing-vessel-licensing food-security-law foreign-fishing-vessels forfeiture-and-fines forfeiture-of-vessels-and-gear hot-pursuit illegal-unreported-and-unregulated-fishing import-export-of-live-fish industrial-fisheries injunctions injunctive-relief inland-fisheries inshore-exclusion-zone international-fisheries-cooperation invasive-species-control iuu-fishing judicial-enforcement jurisdiction-of-circuit-court liberia-maritime-authority marine-conservation maritime-law mcs monitoring-control-and-surveillance nafaa national-fisheries-and-aquaculture-authority natural-resources-law observers-program offences-and-penalties performance-bond photographic-evidence port-state-measures post-harvest-fisheries-activities recreational-fisheries regulations-making-power research-fishing-authorization safety-standards security-for-release seizure-and-forfeiture semi-industrial-fisheries shark-fishing-prohibition stakeholder-consultation subsistence-aquaculture summary-administrative-proceedings sustainable-development transhipment-regulation vessel-monitoring-system vessel-registration vms	2019 agriculture-laws customary-laws environmental-laws executive-law fisheries-law maritime-laws natural-resources-law traffic-laws legislative-acts-by-year legistlative-acts
Liberia Maritime Authority Act of 2010	2010, Administrative Laws, Executive Law, Maritime Laws	2010 Acts, Administrative Law, audited accounts, board of directors, borrowing powers, Bureau of Maritime Affairs, coast guard, coastal management, coastal zone, Commissioner, continental shelf, customs enforcement, deputy commissioners, exclusive economic zone, fisheries regulation, government agency, immigration enforcement, internal waters, legislation, Liberia Maritime Authority, Liberia Maritime Authority Act, Liberia Shipping Corporation, maritime administration, maritime certification, maritime commerce, maritime domain monitoring, maritime employment, maritime enforcement, maritime governance, maritime industry, maritime jurisdiction, maritime law, maritime policy, maritime regulation, maritime sector, maritime security, maritime strategy, maritime surveillance, maritime training, merchant shipping, Ministry of Transport, National Port Authority, public administration, public corporation, public finance, repeal of statutes, seafarers, shipping regulation, Statutory interpretation, territorial waters, UNCLOS, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, vessels, waterways	Download	liberia-maritime-authority-act-of-2010	2010-acts administrative-law audited-accounts board-of-directors borrowing-powers bureau-of-maritime-affairs coast-guard coastal-management coastal-zone commissioner continental-shelf customs-enforcement deputy-commissioners exclusive-economic-zone fisheries-regulation government-agency immigration-enforcement internal-waters legislation liberia-maritime-authority liberia-maritime-authority-act liberia-shipping-corporation maritime-administration maritime-certification maritime-commerce maritime-domain-monitoring maritime-employment maritime-enforcement maritime-governance maritime-industry maritime-jurisdiction maritime-law maritime-policy maritime-regulation maritime-sector maritime-security maritime-strategy maritime-surveillance maritime-training merchant-shipping ministry-of-transport national-port-authority public-administration public-corporation public-finance repeal-of-statutes seafarers shipping-regulation statutory-interpretation territorial-waters unclos united-nations-convention-on-the-law-of-the-sea vessels waterways	2010 administrative-laws executive-law maritime-laws legislative-acts-by-year legistlative-acts
Liberian Maritime Law (1991)	1991, Amended/Partially Repealed Legislative Acts, International Economic Law, International Law, Maritime Laws, Private Wrongs Law, Tax Laws	admiralty jurisdiction, admiralty law, adoption of American general maritime law, aggregation of claims, arbitration, arbitration and mediation, arbitration of maritime labor disputes, Athens Convention, bareboat charter, bareboat registration, barratry, bills of lading, bills of sale, carriage by sea, carriage of goods by sea, carriage of passengers by sea, carrier defences, carrier defenses, carrier liability, certificate of registry, Circuit Court sitting in Admiralty, circuit courts sitting in admiralty, classification societies, collision regulations, Commissioner of Maritime Affairs, competent jurisdiction, constitution of limitation fund, contributory fault, damage to luggage, death of passenger, desertion, distribution of limitation fund, flag state jurisdiction, foreclosure of ship mortgage, foreign registration, freedom of association, Hague Rules, home port Monrovia, international maritime conventions, invalid contractual clauses, joint and several liability, labor contracts at sea, lease financing, Liberian flag vessels, Liberian maritime law, Liberian merchant marine, limitation fund, limitation of liability, limits of liability, loss of luggage, loss of right to limit liability, luggage liability, maintenance and cure, marine casualties, marine casualty investigation, marine safety inspection, maritime administration, maritime claims, maritime commerce, maritime enforcement, maritime fees and penalties, maritime insurance, maritime jurisdiction, maritime labor disputes, maritime labor law, maritime law, maritime liens, maritime penalties, maritime procedure, maritime regulations, maritime security, maritime security interests, merchant seamen, mortgage priority, mutiny, notice of loss, offenses at sea, official vessel number, passenger carriage, passenger liability, performing carrier, permanent registry, personal injury at sea, port state control, preferred ship mortgage, prescription of actions, provisional registry, radio regulations, recording of mortgages, registration fees, release of arrested vessel, repatriation of seamen, rules of navigation, safety of life at sea, salvage law, salvage operations, salvor liability, SDR unit of account, seafarers’ rights, seafarers’ wages, seaworthiness standards, ship documentation, ship financing, ship identification, shipowner liability, shipper and carrier liability, shipping articles, shipping law, Special Drawing Right, statutory law, time bar, tonnage tax, transfer of registry, vessel markings, vessel measurement, vessel mortgage, vessel registration, wages of seamen, wrecks and salvage, wrongful death at sea, wrongful death of seamen	Download	liberian-maritime-law-1991	admiralty-jurisdiction admiralty-law adoption-of-american-general-maritime-law aggregation-of-claims arbitration arbitration-and-mediation arbitration-of-maritime-labor-disputes athens-convention bareboat-charter bareboat-registration barratry bills-of-lading bills-of-sale carriage-by-sea carriage-of-goods-by-sea carriage-of-passengers-by-sea carrier-defences carrier-defenses carrier-liability certificate-of-registry circuit-court-sitting-in-admiralty circuit-courts-sitting-in-admiralty classification-societies collision-regulations commissioner-of-maritime-affairs competent-jurisdiction constitution-of-limitation-fund contributory-fault damage-to-luggage death-of-passenger desertion distribution-of-limitation-fund flag-state-jurisdiction foreclosure-of-ship-mortgage foreign-registration freedom-of-association hague-rules home-port-monrovia international-maritime-conventions invalid-contractual-clauses joint-and-several-liability labor-contracts-at-sea lease-financing liberian-flag-vessels liberian-maritime-law liberian-merchant-marine limitation-fund limitation-of-liability limits-of-liability loss-of-luggage loss-of-right-to-limit-liability luggage-liability maintenance-and-cure marine-casualties marine-casualty-investigation marine-safety-inspection maritime-administration maritime-claims maritime-commerce maritime-enforcement maritime-fees-and-penalties maritime-insurance maritime-jurisdiction maritime-labor-disputes maritime-labor-law maritime-law maritime-liens maritime-penalties maritime-procedure maritime-regulations maritime-security maritime-security-interests merchant-seamen mortgage-priority mutiny notice-of-loss offenses-at-sea official-vessel-number passenger-carriage passenger-liability performing-carrier permanent-registry personal-injury-at-sea port-state-control preferred-ship-mortgage prescription-of-actions provisional-registry radio-regulations recording-of-mortgages registration-fees release-of-arrested-vessel repatriation-of-seamen rules-of-navigation safety-of-life-at-sea salvage-law salvage-operations salvor-liability sdr-unit-of-account seafarers-rights seafarers-wages seaworthiness-standards ship-documentation ship-financing ship-identification shipowner-liability shipper-and-carrier-liability shipping-articles shipping-law special-drawing-right statutory-law time-bar tonnage-tax transfer-of-registry vessel-markings vessel-measurement vessel-mortgage vessel-registration wages-of-seamen wrecks-and-salvage wrongful-death-at-sea wrongful-death-of-seamen	1991-legislative-acts-by-year partially-repealed-legislative-acts international-economic-law international-law-legistlative-acts maritime-laws private-wrongs-law tax-laws legislative-acts-by-year legistlative-acts
Port of Greenville Rehabilitation Project Agreement (2014)	2014, Banking, Business and Commerce Laws, Infrastructure Laws, International Economic Law, International Law, Maritime Laws, Property Laws		Download	port-of-greenville-rehabilitation-project-agreement-2014		2014 banking-business-and-commerce-laws infrastructure-laws international-economic-law international-law-legistlative-acts maritime-laws property-laws legislative-acts-by-year legistlative-acts

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