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46 U.S.C. § 12133 — Duty to carry certificate on vessel and allow examination

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46 U.S.C. § 12133 — Duty to carry certificate on vessel and allow examination

**(a) Duty To Carry.—** The certificate of documentation of a vessel shall be carried on the vessel unless the vessel is exempt by regulation from carrying the certificate. **(b) Availability.—** The owner or individual in charge of a vessel required to carry its certificate of documentation shall make the certificate available for examination at the request of an officer enforcing the revenue laws or as otherwise required by law or regulation. **(c) Criminal Penalty.—** A person willfully violating subsection (b) shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

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19 U.S.C. § 1581 — Boarding vessels

**(a) Customs officers** Any officer of the customs may at any time go on board of any vessel or vehicle at any place in the United States or within the customs waters or, as he may be authorized, within a customs-enforcement area established under the Anti-Smuggling Act [[19 U.S.C. 1701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], or at any other authorized place, without as well as within his district, and examine the manifest and other documents and papers and examine, inspect, and search the vessel or vehicle and every part thereof and any person, trunk, package, or cargo on board, and to this end may hail and stop such vessel or vehicle, and use all necessary force to compel compliance. **(b) Officers of Department of the Treasury** Officers of the Department of the Treasury and other persons authorized by such department may go on board of any vessel at any place in the United States or within the customs waters and hail, stop, and board such vessel in the enforcement of the navigation laws and arrest or, in case of escape or attempted escape, pursue and arrest any person engaged in the breach or violation of the navigation laws. **(c) Penalty for presenting forged, altered, or false documents** Any master of a vessel being examined as herein provided, who presents any forged, altered, or false document or paper to the examining officer, knowing the same to be forged, altered, or false and without revealing the fact shall, in addition to any forfeiture to which in consequence the vessel may be subject, be liable to a fine of not more than $5,000 nor less than $500. **(d) Penalty for failure to stop at command** Any vessel or vehicle which, at any authorized place, is directed to come to a stop

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46 U.S.C. § 12133 — Duty to carry certificate on vessel and

Page 219 TITLE 46—SHIPPING § 12136 § 12132. Loss of coastwise trade privileges (a) SOLD FOREIGN OR PLACED UNDER FOREIGN REGISTRY.—A vessel of more than 200 gross tons (as measured under chapter 143 of this title), eli- gible to engage in the coastwise trade, and later sold foreign in whole or in part or placed under foreign registry may not thereafter engage in the coastwise trade. (b) REBUILT OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.—A vessel eligible to engage in the coastwise trade and later rebuilt outside the United States may not thereafter engage in the coastwise trade. (Pub. L. 109–304, § 5, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1505.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Revised Section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large) 12132(a) ...... 46 App.:883 (1st pro- viso). June 5, 1920, ch. 250, § 27 (1st proviso, 2d proviso less meaning of ‘‘rebuilt’’), 41 Stat. 999; July 2, 1935, ch. 355, 49 Stat. 442; July 14, 1956, ch. 600, § 1, 70 Stat. 544; Pub. L. 86–583, § 1, July 5, 1960, 74 Stat. 321; Pub. L. 100–239, § 6(c)(1), Jan. 11, 1988, 101 Stat. 1782; Pub. L. 104–324, title XI, § 1120(e), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3978. 12132(b) ...... 46 App.:883 (2d pro- viso less meaning of ‘‘rebuilt’’). In subsection (a), the words ‘‘eligible to engage in the coastwise trade’’ are substituted for ‘‘having at any time acquired the lawful right to engage in the coast- wise trade, either by virtue of having been built in, or documented under the laws of the United States’’, and the words ‘‘thereafter engage’’ are substituted for ‘‘hereafter acquire the right to engage’’, to eliminate unnecessary words. In subsection (b), the words ‘‘eligible to engage in the coastwise trade’’ are substituted for ‘‘which has ac- quired the lawful right to engage in the coastwise trade, b

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