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[CITE: 47USC386]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
 
  Part III--Radio Installations on Vessels Carrying Passengers for Hire
 
Sec. 386. Forfeitures

    The following forfeitures shall apply to this part in addition to 
penalties and forfeitures provided by subchapter V of this chapter:
    (a) Any vessel of the United States that is navigated in violation 
of the provisions of this part or of 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 day during 
which such navigation occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
    (b) Every willful failure on the part of the master of a vessel of 
the United States to enforce or to comply with the provisions of this 
part or the rules and regulations of the Commission made in pursuance 
thereof shall cause him to forfeit to the United States the sum of 
$1,000.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 386, as added Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 
973, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 1048; amended Pub. L. 101-239, title III, 
Sec. 3002(h), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2131; Pub. L. 103-414, title III, 
Sec. 303(a)(20)(F), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4295.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-414 inserted section catchline.
    1989--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-239, Sec. 3002(h)(1), substituted 
``$5,000'' for ``$500''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101-239, Sec. 3002(h)(2), substituted 
``$1,000'' for ``$100''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Mar. 1, 1957, see section 4 of act Aug. 6, 1956, 
set out as a note under section 381 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procedures) were superseded, and civil and admiralty procedures in 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.
