16 U.S.C. § 7706 — Prohibited acts
submitted 10 years ago by Pub. L. 114-327 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 552 words · no verdicts yet
This section addresses prohibited acts. It assigns the stated duties, limits, permissions, or funding described below.
(a) Prohibited acts. It is unlawful for any person* to: (1) violate this chapter or a regulation or permit issued under it; (2) use a fishing vessel* without an applicable permit, or while its permit is revoked or suspended; (3) refuse to let an authorized officer board a fishing vessel under that person's control to search, investigate, or inspect for enforcement of this chapter, a regulation, a permit, or the North Pacific Fisheries Convention*; (4) assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with such an officer during that work; (5) resist a lawful arrest for an act prohibited by this chapter or by a regulation or permit under it; (6) ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, buy, import, export, or possess fisheries resources* taken or kept in violation of this chapter, or of a regulation or permit covered by paragraph (1) or (2); (7) knowingly interfere with, delay, or prevent the apprehension or arrest of someone who committed an act prohibited by this section; (8) give the Secretary* false information about a matter the Secretary is considering under this chapter, including false information about a United States fish processor's yearly capacity or extent of processing of part of a fishery's optimum yield harvested by United States fishing vessels; (9) assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, sexually harass, bribe, or interfere with an observer on a vessel covered by this chapter, or a data collector employed by or contracted by anyone carrying out responsibilities under this chapter; (10) fish in violation of a regulation adopted under this chapter; (11) fail to make, keep, or provide catch returns, statistical records, or other reports required by such regulations; (12) fail to stop a vessel after a duly authorized United States official hails and orders it to stop; (13) import, in violation of a regulation, regulated fisheries resources, or resources under Commission* investigation that the Commission has denied entry to under this chapter, during the denial period; (14) make or submit a false record, account, label, or identification for fisheries resources that have been or will be imported, exported, transported, sold, offered for sale, bought, or received in interstate or foreign commerce; or (15) refuse to authorize and accept boarding by a duly authorized inspector under Commission procedures for boarding and inspecting fishing vessels in the Convention Area*.
It is unlawful for any person*—
to violate this chapter or any regulation or permit issued under this chapter;
to use any fishing vessel* to engage in fishing activities* without, or after the revocation or during the period of suspension of, an applicable permit issued pursuant to this chapter;
to refuse to permit any officer authorized to enforce this chapter to board a fishing vessel subject to such person’s control for the purposes of conducting any search, investigation, or inspection in connection with the enforcement of this chapter or any regulation, permit, or the North Pacific Fisheries Convention*;
to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any such authorized officer in the conduct of any search, investigation, or inspection in connection with the enforcement of this chapter or any regulation, permit, or the North Pacific Fisheries Convention;
to resist a lawful arrest for any act prohibited by this chapter or any regulation promulgated or permit issued under this chapter;
to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, purchase, import, export, or have custody, control, or possession of, any fisheries resources* taken or retained in violation of this chapter or any regulation or permit referred to in paragraph (1) or (2);
to interfere with, delay, or prevent, by any means, the apprehension or arrest of another person, knowing that such other person has committed any act prohibited by this section;
to submit to the Secretary* false information (including false information regarding the capacity and extent to which a United States fish processor, on an annual basis, will process a portion of the optimum yield of a fishery that will be harvested by fishing vessels of the United States), regarding any matter that the Secretary is considering in the course of carrying out this chapter;
to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, sexually harass, bribe, or interfere with any observer on a vessel under this chapter, or any data collector employed by or under contract to any person to carry out responsibilities under this chapter;
to engage in fishing activities in violation of any regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter;
to fail to make, keep, or furnish any catch returns, statistical records, or other reports required by regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter to be made, kept, or furnished;
to fail to stop a vessel upon being hailed and instructed to stop by a duly authorized official of the United States;
to import, in violation of any regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter, any fisheries resources in any form of those species subject to regulation pursuant to a recommendation, resolution, or decision of the Commission*, or any fisheries resources in any form not under regulation but under investigation by the Commission, during the period such fisheries resources have been denied entry in accordance with this chapter;
to make or submit any false record, account, or label for, or any false identification of, any fisheries resources that have been, or are intended to be imported, exported, transported, sold, offered for sale, purchased, or received in interstate or foreign commerce; or
to refuse to authorize and accept boarding by a duly authorized inspector pursuant to procedures adopted by the Commission for the boarding and inspection of fishing vessels in the Convention Area*.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 114–327, title I, § 106, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1982.)
- 2016Enacted · Pub. L. 114-327 · 130 Stat. 1982
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