Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables
§ 29. Master of offending vessel punishable
Statutory text
When an offense against this chapter shall have been committed by means of a vessel, or of any boat belonging to a vessel, the master of such vessel shall, unless some other person is shown to have been in charge of and navigating such vessel or boat, be deemed to have been in charge of and navigating the same, and be liable to be punished accordingly.
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. 50–17 § 9 · 25 Stat. 41
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 29
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 9, 25 Stat. 42.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 9, 25 Stat. 42.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 9. That when an offense against this act shall have been committed Liability of master. by means of a vessel, or of any boat belonging to a vessel, the master of such vessel shall, unless some other person is shown to have been in charge of and navigating such vessel or boat, be deemed to have been in charge of and navigating the same, and be liable to be punished accordingly.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 9, 25 Stat. 42.)