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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 8 — Summary Trials for Certain Offenses Against Navigation Laws

§ 395. Limit of sentence

Statutory text

It shall not be lawful for the court to sentence any person convicted in such trial to any greater punishment than imprisonment in jail for one year, or to a fine exceeding $500, or both, in its discretion, in those cases where the laws of the United States authorize such imprisonment and fine.

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. (R.S. § 4304.)

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 395

    (R.S. § 4304.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 4304.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 4304 derived from act June 11, 1864, ch. 121, § 5, 13 Stat. 125.

Credits

(R.S. § 4304.)

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