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16 U.S.C. § 916f — Violations; fines and penalties
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Except as to violations defined in clause 3 of subsection (a) of [section 916c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section916c&num=0&edition=prelim), any person violating any provision of the convention, or of any regulation of the Commission, or of this subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or be imprisoned not more than one year, or both. In addition the court may prohibit such person from whaling for such period of time as it may determine, and may order forfeited, in whole or in part, the whales taken by such person in whaling during the season, or the whale products derived therefrom or the monetary value thereof. Such forfeited whales or whale products shall be disposed of in accordance with the direction of the court.
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Except as to violations defined in clause 3 of subsection (a) of [section 916c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section916c&num=0&edition=prelim), any person violating any provision of the convention, or of any regulation of the Commission, or of this subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or be imprisoned not more than one year, or both. In addition the court may prohibit such person from whaling for such period of time as it may determine, and may order forfeited, in whole or in part, the whales taken by such person in whaling during the season, or the whale products derived therefrom or the monetary value thereof. Such forfeited whales or whale products shall be disposed of in accordance with the direction of the court.
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**(a) Whaling, transporting, or selling violations; records; reports** It shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States (1) to engage in whaling in violation of the convention or of any regulation of the Commission, or of this subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce; (2) to ship, transport, purchase, sell, offer for sale, import, export, or have in possession any whale or whale products taken or processed in violation of the convention, or of any regulation of the Commission, or of this subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce; (3) to fail to make, keep, submit, or furnish any record or report required of him by the convention, or by any regulation of the Commission, or by any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce, or to refuse to permit any officer authorized to enforce the convention, the regulations of the Commission, this subchapter, and the regulations of the Secretary of Commerce, to inspect such record or report at any reasonable time.
**(b) Acts of commission or omission** It shall be unlawful for any person or vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to do any act prohibited or to fail to do any act required by the convention, or by this subchapter, or by any regulation adopted by the Commission, or by any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce.
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When used in this subchapter—
**(a)** Convention: The word “convention” means the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling signed at Washington under date of December 2, 1946, by the United States of America and certain other governments.
**(b)** Commission: The word “Commission” means the International Whaling Commission established by article III of the convention.
**(c)** United States Commissioner: The words “United States Commissioner” mean the member of the International Whaling Commission representing the United States of America appointed pursuant to article III of the convention and [section 916a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section916a&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d)** Person: The word “person” denotes every individual, partnership, corporation, and association subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
**(e)** Vessel: The word “vessel” denotes every kind, type, or description of water craft or contrivance subject to the jurisdiction of the United States used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation.
**(f)** Factory ship: The words “factory ship” mean a vessel in which or on which whales are treated or processed, whether wholly or in part.
**(g)** Land station: The words “land station” mean a factory on the land at which whales are treated or processed, whether wholly or in part.
**(h)** Whale catcher: The words “whale catcher” mean a vessel used for the purpose of hunting, killing, taking, towing, holding onto, or scouting for whales.
**(i)** Whale products: The words “whale products” mean any unprocessed part of a whale and blubber, meat, bones, whale oil, sperm oil, spermaceti, meal, and baleen.
**(j)** Whaling: The word “whaling” means the scouting for, huntin
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Any person who fails to make, keep, or furnish any catch return, statistical record, or any report that may be required by the convention, or by any regulation of the Commission, or by this subchapter, or by a regulation of the Secretary of Commerce, or any person who furnishes a false return, record, or report, upon conviction, shall be subject to such fine as may be imposed by the court not to exceed $500, and shall in addition be prohibited from whaling, processing, or possessing whales and whale products from the date of conviction until such time as any delinquent return, record, or report shall have been submitted or any false return, record, or report shall have been replaced by a duly certified correct and true return, record, or report to the satisfaction of the court. The penalties imposed by [section 916f of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section916f&num=0&edition=prelim) shall not be invoked for failure to comply with requirements respecting returns, records, and reports.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 916e
(2) Land-station license for secondary proc-
essing of parts of whales delivered to it by a
land station licensed as a primary processor,
$100.
(3) Factory-ship license for primary proc-
essing of whales delivered by whale catchers,
$250.
(4) License for any vessel used exclusively
for transporting whale products from a factory
ship to a port during the whaling season, $100.
(5) Whale-catcher license, $100.
(c) Disposition of fees
All moneys derived from the issuance of whal-
ing licenses shall be covered into the Treasury
of the United States, and no license fee shall be
refunded by reason of the failure of any person
to whom a license has been issued to utilize the
facility in whaling for which such license was
issued.
(d) Application; conditions precedent
Any person, in making application for a li-
cense to operate a whale catcher, must furnish
evidence or affidavit satisfactory to the Sec-
retary of Commerce that, in addition to con-
forming to other applicable laws and regula-
tions, (1) the whale catcher is adequately
equipped and competently manned to engage in
whaling in accordance with the provisions of the
convention, the regulations of the Commission,
and the regulations of the Secretary of Com-
merce; (2) gunners and crews will be com-
pensated on some basis that does not depend pri-
marily on the number of whales taken; and (3)
no bonus or other partial remuneration with re-
lation to the number of whales taken shall be
paid to gunners and crews in respect of the tak-
ing of any whales, the taking of which is prohib-
ited.
(e) Additional conditions
Any person, in making application for a li-
cense to operate a land station or a factory ship
must furnish evidence or affidavits to the satis-
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