§ 1706a. Civil penalties for trading without required certificate of documentation

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.

1. 1886

   Pub. L. 49–421 § 7 · 24 Stat. 79

   Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 1706a

   June 19, 1886, ch. 421, § 7, 24 Stat. 81

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 19, 1886, ch. 421, § 7, 24 Stat. 81

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 7. Every vessel of twenty tons or upwards, entitled to be documented Penalty for trading without license. as a vessel of the United States, other than registered vessels, found trading between district and district, or between different places in the same district, or carrying on the fishery, without being enrolled and licensed, and every vessel of less than twenty tons and not less than five tons burden found trading or carrying on the fishery as aforesaid without a license obtained as provided by this title, shall be liable R. S., sec. 4371, p. 845. to a fine of thirty dollars at every port of arrival without such enrollment or license. But if the license shall have expired while the vessel was at sea, and there shall have been no opportunity to renew such license, then said fine of thirty dollars shall not be incurred. And so much of section four thousand three hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes as relates to vessels entitled to be documented as vessels of the United States is hereby repealed.

2. 1980

   Vessel Documentation Act

   Pub. L. 96–594 title I § 126(e) · 94 Stat. 3453

   1. Substituted · 19 U.S.C. § 1706a

      Pub. L. 96–594 substituted provisions relating to violations and penalties for employment in a trade of a vessel entitled to be documented but not so documented for provisions relating to fines and penalties for trading without a license by a vessel twenty tons or upward

   2. Struck · 19 U.S.C. § 1706a

      Pub. L. 96–594 struck out provisions respecting expiration of a license while a vessel is at sea

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 96–594 substituted provisions relating to violations and penalties for employment in a trade of a vessel entitled to be documented but not so documented for provisions relating to fines and penalties for trading without a license by a vessel twenty tons or upward, and struck out provisions respecting expiration of a license while a vessel is at sea.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (e) Section 7 of the Act of June 19, 1886, as amended (46 U.S.C. 319), is further amended by— (1) striking the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “Whenever a vessel, entitled to be documented and not so documented, Trading without license, penalty. is employed in a trade for which certificates of documentation are issued under the vessel documentation laws, other than a trade covered by a registry, the vessel is liable to a civil penalty of $500 for each port at which it arrives without the proper certificate of documentation, and if it has on board any merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture (sea stores excepted), or any taxable domestic spirits, wines, or other alcoholic liquors, on which the duties or taxes have not been paid or secured to be paid, the vessel, together with its equipment and cargo, is liable to seizure and forfeiture.”; and (2) striking the last sentence.

   Effective date note
   Pub. L. 96–594, title I, § 128, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3461, provided in part that the amendment made by Pub. L. 96–594 is effective on first day of eighteenth month following December 1980.

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