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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 412. Liability of masters, pilots, etc., and of vessels engaged in violations
Any and every master, pilot, and engineer, or person or persons
acting in such capacity, respectively, on board of any boat or
vessel who shall knowingly engage in towing any scow, boat, or
vessel loaded with any material specified in section 407 of this
title to any point or place of deposit or discharge in any harbor
or navigable water, elsewhere than within the limits defined and
permitted by the Secretary of the Army, or who shall willfully
injure or destroy any work of the United States contemplated in
section 408 of this title, or who shall willfully obstruct the
channel of any waterway in the manner contemplated in section 409
of this title, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this Act,
and shall upon conviction be punished as provided in section 411 of
this title, and shall also have his license revoked or suspended
for a term to be fixed by the judge before whom tried and
convicted. And any boat, vessel, scow, raft, or other craft used or
employed in violating any of the provisions of sections 407, 408,
409, 414, and 415 of this title shall be liable for the pecuniary
penalties specified in section 411 of this title, and in addition
thereto for the amount of the damages done by said boat, vessel,
scow, raft, or other craft, which latter sum shall be placed to the
credit of the appropriation for the improvement of the harbor or
waterway in which the damage occurred, and said boat, vessel, scow,
raft, or other craft may be proceeded against summarily by way of
libel in any district court of the United States having
jurisdiction thereof.
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