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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 8 — Summary Trials for Certain Offenses Against Navigation Laws

§ 396. Recovery of penalties and forfeitures generally

Statutory text

All the penalties and forfeitures which may be incurred for offenses against title 48 of the Revised Statutes may be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered in such court, and be disposed of in such manner, as any penalties and forfeitures which may be incurred for offenses against the laws relating to the collection of duties, except when otherwise expressly prescribed.

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. § 4305.)

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 396

    (R.S. § 4305.)

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

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 4305.)

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

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Title 48 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in text, was in the original “this Title”, meaning title 48 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§ 4131 to 4305. For complete classification of R.S. §§ 4131 to 4305 to the Code, see Tables.

Codification

R.S. § 4305 derived from act Dec. 31, 1792, ch. 1, § 29, 1 Stat. 298.

Credits

(R.S. § 4305.)

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