33 U.S.C. § 554 — Duty of shipowners and officers to furnish information to person in local charge of improvement; penalty

submitted 135 years ago by ch. 252 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 96 words · no verdicts yet

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Owners and certain officers and clerks of vessels must provide requested information about vessels, passengers, freight, and tonnage where river or harbor improvements occur. A violation may bring a $100 fine or up to two months in prison.

Owners, agents, masters, and clerks of vessels arriving at or leaving places where river or harbor improvement works are being carried out must, when the people in charge request it, provide a complete statement about vessels, passengers, freight, and tonnage. For each offense, a violator may be fined $100 or imprisoned for up to two months. The case may be enforced in any United States district court with territorial jurisdiction over the offense.

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Owners, agents, masters, and clerks of vessels arriving at or departing from localities where works of river and harbor improvement are carried on shall furnish, on application of the persons in local charge of the works, a comprehensive statement of vessels, passengers, freight, and tonnage.

Every person or persons offending against the provisions of this section shall, for each and every offense, be liable to a fine of $100, or imprisonment not exceeding two months, to be enforced in any district court in the United States within whose territorial jurisdiction such offense may have been committed.

Source credit: (Feb. 21, 1891, ch. 252, §§ 1, 2, 26 Stat. 766.)

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1891Enacted · Act of Feb. 21, 1891, ch. 252 · 26 Stat. 766

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