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[CITE: 47USC507]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
               SUBCHAPTER V--PENAL PROVISIONS; FORFEITURES
 
Sec. 507. Violation of Great Lakes Agreement

    (a) Any vessel of the United States that is navigated in violation 
of the provisions of the Great Lakes Agreement or the rules and 
regulations of the Commission made in pursuance thereof and any vessel 
of a foreign country that is so navigated on waters under the 
jurisdiction of the United States shall forfeit to the United States the 
sum of $500 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 the 
Great Lakes Agreement or the rules and regulations of the Commission 
made in pursuance thereof shall cause him to forfeit to the United 
States the sum of $100.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, Sec. 506, formerly Sec. 507, as added 
Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 735, Sec. 3, 68 Stat. 729; renumbered Sec. 506, Pub. 
L. 96-507, Sec. 1, Dec. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 2747.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 506 of act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, was classified to 
section 506 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96-507.


                             Effective Date

    Section 6 of act Aug. 13, 1954, provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
this section and amending sections 153, 154, and 504 of this title] 
shall take effect on November 13, 1954.''


                    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procedures) were superseded, and civil and admiralty procedures in 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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 503, 504 of this title.
