Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 44A — Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention
§ 2438. Criminal offenses
Statutory text
Offenses
A person is guilty of an offense if that person commits any act prohibited by paragraph (4), (5), (6), or (7) of section 2435 of this title.
Punishment
Any offense described in subsection (a) is punishable by a fine of $50,000, or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both.
Offenses under other laws
A conviction under subsection (a) for any act shall not be deemed to preclude a conviction for such act under any other law.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act of 1984
Pub. L. 98–623 title III § 309 · 98 Stat. 3394
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 2438
(Pub. L. 98–623, title III, § 309, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3403.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 98–623, title III, § 309, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3403.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 309. CRIMINAL OFFENSES. (a) Offenses.— A person is guilty of an offense if that person Prohibition. commits any act prohibited by paragraph (4), (5), (6), or (7) of section 306. (b) Punishment.— Any offense described in subsection (a) is punishable by a fine of $50,000, or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both. (c) Offenses Under Other Laws.— A conviction under subsection (a) for any act shall not be deemed to preclude a conviction for such act under any other law.
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