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33 U.S.C. § 1 — Regulations by Secretary of the Army for navigation of waters generally
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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 protection 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 regulations shall be posted, in conspicuous and appropriate 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 punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment (in the case of a natural person) not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the court.
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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 protection 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 regulations shall be posted, in conspicuous and appropriate 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 punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment (in the case of a natural person) not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the court.
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**(a) Criminal penalties for violations; enforcement; rules and regulations** It shall be the duty of all persons owning, operating, and tending the drawbridges built prior to August 18, 1894, or which may thereafter be built across the navigable rivers and other waters of the United States, to open, or cause to be opened, the draws of such bridges under such rules and regulations as in the opinion of the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating the public interests require to govern the opening of drawbridges for the passage of vessels and other water crafts, and such rules and regulations, when so made and published, shall have the force of law. Every such person who shall willfully fail or refuse to open, or cause to be opened, the draw of any such bridge for the passage of a boat or boats, as provided in such regulations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,000 nor less than $1,000, or by imprisonment (in the case of a natural person) for not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That the proper action to enforce the provisions of this subsection may be commenced before any magistrate judge, judge, or court of the United States, and such magistrate judge, judge, or court shall proceed in respect thereto as authorized by law in case of crimes against the United States: Provided further, That whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, the public interests require it, he may make rules and regulations to govern the opening of drawbridges for the passage of vessels and other water crafts, and such rules and regulations, when so made and published, sha
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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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