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14 U.S.C. § 544 — Aids to maritime navigation; penalty

submitted 77 years ago by ch. 393 to r/title-14-COAST-GUARD · 116 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary must issue and enforce reasonable rules protecting maritime navigation around covered structures. A non-Federal owner or operator that violates a rule commits a misdemeanor and may be fined up to $1,500 for each day.

The Secretary must issue and enforce necessary and reasonable rules protecting maritime navigation. The rules cover lights and other signals on fixed and floating structures in or over United States-jurisdiction waters, and on the high seas for structures owned or operated by people subject to United States jurisdiction. An owner or operator, other than a United States agency, that violates a rule commits a misdemeanor and, on conviction, may be fined up to $1,500 for each day the violation continues.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The Secretary shall prescribe and enforce necessary and reasonable rules and regulations, for the protection of maritime navigation, relative to the establishment, maintenance, and operation of lights and other signals on fixed and floating structures in or over waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and in the high seas for structures owned or operated by persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Any owner or operator of such a structure, excluding an agency of the United States, who violates any of the rules or regulations prescribed hereunder, commits a misdemeanor and shall be punished, upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not exceeding $1,500 for each day which such violation continues.

Source credit: (Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 501, § 85; June 4, 1956, ch. 351, § 1, 70 Stat. 226; Pub. L. 93–283, § 1(2), May 14, 1974, 88 Stat. 139; Pub. L. 113–281, title II, § 205(a)(3), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 3025; renumbered § 544, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 105(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4200.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1949Enacted · Act of Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393 · 63 Stat. 501
  • 1956Amended · Act of June 4, 1956, ch. 351 · 70 Stat. 226
  • 1974Amended · Pub. L. 93-283 · 88 Stat. 139
  • 2014Amended · Pub. L. 113-281 · 128 Stat. 3025
  • 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-282 · 132 Stat. 4200

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 393 on 1949-08-04.

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