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title: "46 U.S.C. § 4507"
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title_number: 46
title_name: "SHIPPING"
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# 46 U.S.C. § 4507 - Penalties

## Text

(a) The owner, charterer, managing operator, agent, master, and individual in charge of a vessel to which this chapter applies which is operated in violation of this chapter or a regulation prescribed under this chapter may each be assessed a civil penalty by the Secretary of not more than $5,000. Any vessel with respect to which a penalty is assessed under this subsection is liable in rem for the penalty.

(b) A person willfully violating this chapter or a regulation prescribed under this chapter shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(Added Pub. L. 100–424, § 2(a), Sept. 9, 1988, 102 Stat. 1588.)