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47 U.S.C. § 29 — Master of offending vessel punishable

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If a vessel or its boat is used to commit an offense under this chapter, the ship's master is treated as being in charge and can be punished. This applies unless someone else is shown to have actually been in charge and navigating the vessel or boat at the time.

This is one short, undivided provision. When an offense against this chapter is committed by means of a vessel, or a boat belonging to a vessel, the law deems the vessel's master (its commanding officer) to have been in charge of and navigating it — and makes that master liable to be punished accordingly. This assumption only changes if someone else is shown to have actually been in charge of and navigating that vessel or boat at the time.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

When an offense against this chapter shall have been committed by means of a vessel, or of any boat belonging to a vessel, the master of such vessel shall, unless some other person is shown to have been in charge of and navigating such vessel or boat, be deemed to have been in charge of and navigating the same, and be liable to be punished accordingly.

Source credit: (Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 9, 25 Stat. 42.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1888Enacted · Act of Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17 · 25 Stat. 42

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 17 on 1888-02-29.

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