Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 3 — Navigation Rules for Harbors, Rivers, and Inland Waters Generally
§ 153. Penalty for use of unlawful towline
Statutory text
The master of the towing vessel shall be liable to the suspension or revocation of his license for any willful violation of regulations issued pursuant to section 152 of this title in the manner prescribed for incompetency, misconduct, or unskillfulness.
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. 60–212 § 15 · 35 Stat. 424
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 153
(May 28, 1908, ch. 212, § 15, 35 Stat. 429.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 28, 1908, ch. 212, § 15, 35 Stat. 429.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 15. That the master of the towing vessel shall be liable to the Penalty for violation by master. suspension or revocation of his license for any willful violation of regulations issued pursuant to section fourteen in the manner now prescribed for incompetency, misconduct, or unskillfulness.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of act June 7, 1897, ch. 4, 30 Stat. 96, which comprises a major part of this chapter.
Credits
(May 28, 1908, ch. 212, § 15, 35 Stat. 429.)