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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 14 — California Debris Commission

§ 679. Violation of permit to mine; penalty

Statutory text

An intentional violation on the part of a mine owner or owners, company, or corporation, or the agents or employees of either, of the conditions of the order granted pursuant to section 673 of this title, or such modifications thereof as may have been made by said commission, shall work a forfeiture of the privileges thereby conferred, and upon notice being served by the order of said commission upon such owner or owners, company, or corporation, or agent in charge, work shall immediately cease. Said commission shall take necessary steps to enforce its orders in case of the failure, neglect, or refusal of such owner or owners, company, or corporation, or agents thereof, to comply therewith, or in the event of any person or persons, company, or corporation working by said process in said territory contrary to law.

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. Pub. L. 52–183 § 19 · 27 Stat. 507

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 679

    (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 19, 27 Stat. 510.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 19, 27 Stat. 510.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 19. That an intentional violation on the part of a mine owner or owners, company, or corporation, or the agents or employees of either, of the conditions of the order granted pursuant to Ante, p. 508. section thirteen, or such modifications thereof as may have been made by said commission, shall work a forfeiture of the privileges thereby Work to cease upon service of notice. conferred, and upon notice being served by the order of said commission upon such owner or owners, company, or corporation, or agent in charge, work shall immediately cease. Said commission shall Enforcement of orders, etc. take necessary steps to enforce its orders incase of the failure, neglect, or refusal of such owner or owners, company, or corporation, or agents thereof, to comply therewith, or in the event of any person or persons, company, or corporation working by said process in said territory contrary to law.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

California Debris Commission abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of the Army by Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1106, , 100 Stat. 4229, set out as a note under section 661 of this title.

Credits

(Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 19, 27 Stat. 510.)

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