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[CITE: 33USC411]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
   CHAPTER 9--PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER 
                         IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
 
                        SUBCHAPTER I--IN GENERAL
 
Sec. 411. Penalty for wrongful deposit of refuse; use of or 
        injury to harbor improvements, and obstruction of navigable 
        waters generally
        
    Every person and every corporation that shall violate, or that shall 
knowingly aid, abet, authorize, or instigate a violation of the 
provisions of sections 407, 408, 409, 414, and 415 of this title shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished 
by a fine of up to $25,000 per day, or by imprisonment (in the case of a 
natural person) for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or 
by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, one-
half of said fine to be paid to the person or persons giving information 
which shall lead to conviction.

(Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 425, Sec. 16, 30 Stat. 1153; Pub. L. 104-303, title 
II, Sec. 218(a), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3696.)

                          Codification

    Section is from part of section 16 of act Mar. 3, 1899, popularly 
known as the ``Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899''. The 
balance of such section, relating to liability of masters, pilots, and 
so forth and of vessels engaged in violations, is classified to section 
412 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-303 substituted ``407, 408, 409, 414, and 415'' 
for ``407, 408, and 409'' and ``of up to $25,000 per day'' for ``not 
exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars nor less than five hundred 
dollars''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 409, 412, 413, 418, 419, 
702i of this title.
