                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                          CHAPTER 51--HOMICIDE
 
Sec. 1115. Misconduct or neglect of ship officers

    Every captain, engineer, pilot, or other person employed on any 
steamboat or vessel, by whose misconduct, negligence, or inattention to 
his duties on such vessel the life of any person is destroyed, and every 
owner, charterer, inspector, or other public officer, through whose 
fraud, neglect, connivance, misconduct, or violation of law the life of 
any person is destroyed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned 
not more than ten years, or both.
    When the owner or charterer of any steamboat or vessel is a 
corporation, any executive officer of such corporation, for the time 
being actually charged with the control and management of the operation, 
equipment, or navigation of such steamboat or vessel, who has knowingly 
and willfully caused or allowed such fraud, neglect, connivance, 
misconduct, or violation of law, by which the life of any person is 
destroyed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 
ten years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 757; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 461 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 282, 35 Stat. 1144).
    Section restores the intent of the original enactments, R.S. 
Sec. 5344, and act Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1454, Sec. 5, 33 Stat. 1025, and 
makes this section one of general application. In the Criminal Code of 
1909, by placing it in chapter 11, limited to places within the special 
maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, such 
original intent was inadvertently lost as indicated by the entire 
absence of report or comment on such limitation.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $10,000'' in two places.
