Volume 79
Public Law 89–71
To equalize certain penalties in the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933.
Approved July 9, 1965
Statutory text
AN ACT
To equalize certain penalties in the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the last paragraph of section 2 of the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933 (46 U.S.C. 844), is hereby amended to read as follows:
“Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $1,000 for each day such violation continues, to be recovered by the United States in a civil action.”
Approved July 9, 1965.