33 USC § 442 - Liability of officers of towing vessel

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s442"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "33 USC § 442 - Liability of officers of towing vessel"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "442"
section_name: "Liability of officers of towing vessel"
chapter_number: 9
chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "NEW YORK HARBOR, HARBOR OF HAMPTON ROADS, AND HARBOR OF BALTIMORE"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 2, 25 Stat. 209; Pub. L. 85–802, § 1(2), Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 970.)"
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# § 442. Liability of officers of towing vessel

section 441 of this titlesection 441 of this title

Any and every master and engineer, or person or persons acting in such capacity, respectively, on board of any boat or vessel, who shall knowingly engage in towing any scow, boat, or vessel loaded with any such prohibited matter to any point or place of deposit, or discharge in the waters of any harbor subject to this subchapter, or to any point or place elsewhere than within the limits defined and permitted by the supervisor of the harbor, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of , and shall, upon conviction, be punishable as provided for offenses in violation of , and shall also have his license revoked or suspended for a term to be fixed by the judge before whom tried and convicted.

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**Source Credit**: (June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 2, 25 Stat. 209; Pub. L. 85–802, § 1(2), Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 970.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1958— substituted “any harbor subject to this subchapter” for “the harbor of New York, or in its adjacent or tributary waters, or in those of Long Island Sound”, and struck out “hereinafter mentioned” after “supervisor of the harbor”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1958 Amendment

Amendment by  effective on sixtieth day after , see , set out as a note under .