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33 U.S.C. § 2 — Regulations for navigation of South and Southwest Passes of Mississippi River; penalties
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The Secretary of the Army is authorized to make such rules and regulations for the navigation of the South and Southwest Passes of the Mississippi River as to him shall seem necessary or expedient for the purpose of preventing any obstruction to the channels through said South and Southwest Passes and any injury to the works therein constructed. The term “South and Southwest Passes”, as employed in this section, shall be construed as embracing the entire extent of channel in each case, between the upper ends of the works at the head of the pass and the outer or sea ends of the jetties at the entrance from the Gulf of Mexico; and any willful violation of any rule or regulation made by the Secretary of the Army in pursuance of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, for which the owner or owners, agent or agents, master or pilot of the vessel so offending shall be separately or collectively responsible, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100, nor exceeding $500, or by imprisonment for not exceeding three months, or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
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The Secretary of the Army is authorized to make such rules and regulations for the navigation of the South and Southwest Passes of the Mississippi River as to him shall seem necessary or expedient for the purpose of preventing any obstruction to the channels through said South and Southwest Passes and any injury to the works therein constructed. The term “South and Southwest Passes”, as employed in this section, shall be construed as embracing the entire extent of channel in each case, between the upper ends of the works at the head of the pass and the outer or sea ends of the jetties at the entrance from the Gulf of Mexico; and any willful violation of any rule or regulation made by the Secretary of the Army in pursuance of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, for which the owner or owners, agent or agents, master or pilot of the vessel so offending shall be separately or collectively responsible, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100, nor exceeding $500, or by imprisonment for not exceeding three months, or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
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TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
§ 2
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 1. Regulations by Secretary of the Army for
navigation of waters generally
It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the
Army to prescribe such regulations for the use,
administration, and navigation of the navigable
waters of the United States as in his judgment
the public necessity may require for the protec-
tion of life and property, or of operations of the
United States in channel improvement, covering
all matters not specifically delegated by law to
some other executive department. Such regula-
tions shall be posted, in conspicuous and appro-
priate places, for the information of the public;
and every person and every corporation which
shall violate such regulations shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction
thereof in any district court of the United
States within whose territorial jurisdiction such
offense may have been committed, shall be pun-
ished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by impris-
onment (in the case of a natural person) not ex-
ceeding six months, in the discretion of the
court.
Any regulations prescribed by the Secretary of
the Army in pursuance of this section may be
enforced as provided in section 413 of this title,
the provisions whereof are made applicable to
the said regulations.
(Aug. 18, 1894, ch. 299, § 4, 28 Stat. 362; June 13,
1902, ch. 1079, §§ 6, 11, 32 Stat. 374; Aug. 8, 1917, ch.
49, § 7, 40 Stat. 266; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II,
§ 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
The first paragraph of this section is from section 4
of act Aug. 18, 1894, popularly known as the ‘‘River and
Harbor Act of 1894’’, as amended.
As originally enacted, said section 4 made it the duty
of the Secretary o
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