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Code · CFR · Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters · Part 25 · § 25.503

§ 25.503. Proper claimants.

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(a)The claimant, or the decedent in a death case, must have been an inhabitant of a foreign country at the time of the incident giving rise to the claim and must not be otherwise excluded by § 25.505. It is not necessary that a claimant be a citizen of, or legal domiciliary of the foreign country.
(b)A corporation or other organization doing business in a foreign country on a permanent basis may qualify as a proper claimant although organized under United States law.
(c)The government of a foreign country or a political subdivision thereof is a proper claimant unless excluded by waiver provisions of applicable international agreements.
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