Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 11 — Regulation of Landing, Curing, and Sale of Sponges Taken from Gulf of Mexico and Straits of Florida
§ 783. Punishment for violations of law; liability of vessels
Statutory text
Every person, partnership, or association guilty of a violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to a fine of not more than $500, and in addition such fine shall be a lien against the vessel or boat on which the offense is committed, and said vessel or boat shall be seized and proceeded against by process of libel in any court having jurisdiction of the offense.
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.
Pub. L. 63–253 § 3 · 38 Stat. 692
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 783
(Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, § 3, 38 Stat. 692.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, § 3, 38 Stat. 692.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That every person, partnership, or association guilty of a violation of this Act shall be liable to a fine of not more than $500, and in addition such fine shall be a lien against the vessel or boat on which the offense is committed, and said vessel or boat shall be seized and proceeded against by process of libel in any court having jurisdiction of the offense.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, § 3, 38 Stat. 692.)