{"identifier":"/us/usc/t46/s4507","title":46,"num":"\u00a7\u202f4507.","heading":"Penalties","text":"\u00a7\u202f4507.\nPenalties\n(a) The owner, charterer, managing operator, agent, master, and individual in charge of a vessel to which this chapter applies which is operated in violation of this chapter or a regulation prescribed under this chapter may each be assessed a civil penalty by the Secretary of not more than $5,000. Any vessel with respect to which a penalty is assessed under this subsection is liable in rem for the penalty.\n(b) A person willfully violating this chapter or a regulation prescribed under this chapter shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t46/s4507.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t46/s4507","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f4507."},{"t":"heading","text":"Penalties"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t46/s4507/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" The owner, charterer, managing operator, agent, master, and individual in charge of a vessel to which this chapter applies which is operated in violation of this chapter or a regulation prescribed under this chapter may each be assessed a civil penalty by the Secretary of not more than $5,000. Any vessel with respect to which a penalty is assessed under this subsection is liable in rem for the penalty.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t46/s4507/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"content","text":" A person willfully violating this chapter or a regulation prescribed under this chapter shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}