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[CITE: 47USC362]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
 
       Part II--Radio Equipment and Radio Operators On Board Ship
 
Sec. 362. Forfeitures; recovery

    The following forfeitures shall apply to this part, in addition to 
the penalties and forfeitures provided by subchapter V of this chapter:
    (a) Any ship that leaves or attempts to leave any harbor or port of 
the United States in violation of the provisions of this part, or the 
rules and regulations of the Commission made in pursuance thereof, or 
any ship of the United States that is navigated outside of any harbor or 
port in violation of any of the provisions of this part, or the rules 
and regulations of the Commission made in pursuance thereof, shall 
forfeit to the United States the sum of $5,000, recoverable by way of 
suit or libel. Each such departure or attempted departure, and in the 
case of a ship of the United States each day during which such 
navigation occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
    (b) Every willful failure on the part of the master of a ship of the 
United States to enforce or to comply with the provisions of this 
chapter or the rules and regulations of the Commission as to equipment, 
operators, watches, or radio service shall cause him to forfeit to the 
United States the sum of $1,000.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 364, formerly Sec. 362, as 
added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, Sec. 10(b), 50 Stat. 196; renumbered 
Sec. 364, Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 729, Sec. 2(a)(1), 68 Stat. 706; amended 
Pub. L. 101-239, title III, Sec. 3002(g), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 
2131.)

                       References in Text

    This part, referred to in text, commences with section 351 of this 
title.


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-239, Sec. 3002(g)(1), substituted 
``$5,000'' for ``$500''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101-239, Sec. 3002(g)(2), substituted 
``$1,000'' for ``$100''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective May 20, 1937, see section 16 of act May 20, 1937, 
set out as a note under section 351 of this title.


                    Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

    Admiralty and maritime rules of practice (which included libel 
procedures) were superseded, and civil and admiralty procedures in 
United States district courts were unified, effective July 1, 1966, see 
rule 1 and Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims, 
Title 28, Appendix, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.


                            Cross References

    Mode of recovery of forfeitures generally, see section 2461 of Title 
28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
