Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 24 — Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Communication
§ 1208. Penalties
Statutory text
Master, person in charge, or pilot subject to penalty
Whoever, being the master or person in charge of a vessel subject to this chapter, fails to enforce or comply with this chapter or the regulation, hereunder; or
Whoever, being designated by the master or person in charge of a vessel subject to this chapter to pilot or direct the movement of the vessel, fails to enforce or comply with this chapter or the regulations hereunder—
Is liable to a civil penalty of not more than $500 to be assessed by the Secretary.
Vessels subject to penalty; jurisdiction
Every vessel navigating in violation of this chapter or the regulations hereunder is liable to a civil penalty of not more than $500 to be assessed by the Secretary for which the vessel may be proceeded against in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction.
Remission or mitigation
Any penalty assessed under this section may be remitted or mitigated by the Secretary upon such terms as he may deem proper.
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.
Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act
Pub. L. 92–63 § 9 · 85 Stat. 164
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 1208
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 9, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–63, § 9, Aug. 4, 1971, 85 Stat. 165.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 9. (a) Whoever, being the master or person in charge of a Penalty. vessel subject to this Act, fails to enforce or comply with this Act or the regulation, hereunder; or Whoever, being designated by the master or person in charge of a vessel subject to this Act to pilot or direct the movement of the vessel, fails to enforce or comply with this Act or the regulations hereunder— Is liable to a civil penalty of not more than $500 to be assessed by the Secretary. (b) Every vessel navigating in violation of this Act or the regulations hereunder is liable to a civil penalty of not more than $500 to be assessed by the Secretary for which the vessel may be proceeded against in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction. (c) Any penalty assessed under this section may be remitted or mitigated by the Secretary upon such terms as he may deem proper.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , or six months after the promulgation of regulations which would implement its provisions, whichever is later, see section 10 of Pub. L. 92–63, set out as a note under section 1201 of this title.