MEXICAN nSKERY LEGISLATION 



Article 109. When the person or Fishing Office having knoTfledge of the acts considered 

 as a violation, is a member of an Office of higher category, he (or it) shall refer the 

 report to the latter, which will proceed in the manner provided in the following article. 



Article 110. In the case of the previous article, or when the authority discovering 

 the violation does not belong to another (office) of higher category, such authority shall 

 make the necessary study of the case and propose to the Ministry of Agriculture and Develop- 

 ment the penalty applicable under the proper law, notifying the violator that within twenty 

 days following such notification he must make his defense and present his evidence before 

 the proper authority. 



Article 111. At the end of the period referred to in the preceding article, the original 

 file and the defense presented, together with the evidence submitted or a certificate stating 

 that none was submitted, shall be sent to the Ministry of Agriculture and Development, which 

 Executive agency shall render the final decision in the matter, either approving or modifying 

 the penalty proposed. 



Article 112. After approving or modifjring the penalty proposed, the Ministry of Agri- 

 culture and Development throxigh the authority who proposed the penalty, shall notify the 

 violator regarding its decision. The authority irtio proposed the penalty shall inform the 

 respective authority of the final decision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Development 

 so that it may be carried out in accordance with the legal dispositions in force. 



Article 113. The proceeds of fines imposed for violations of the Fishing Law and other 

 dispositions in the matter shall be distributed in the manner provided in the Tartff, 



Article 114. In cases where a fishing authorization is to be declared null and void, 

 the Ministry of Agriculture and Development shall issue an order declaring that the holder of 

 the contract-concession or permit, as the case may be, has made himself liable to that penalty, 

 and giving the violator a period of sixty days in the case of a contract-concession or thirty 

 days in the case of a permit, to make his defense and present his evidence. 



Article 115. At the end of that period, the Ministry of Agriculture and Development, 

 after examining the defense presented and the evidence submitted, shall declare definitively 

 if the cancellation is in order or if the penalty is unlawful, as the case may be. 



Article 116. The declarations to ifbtda the two preceding articles refer shall be pub- 

 lished in the DIARIO OFICIAL of the Federation; so shall the contract-concessions issued by 

 the Ministry of Agriculture and Development, 



CHAPTER II 



Penalties 



Article 117. The cancellation of fishing contract-concessions or permits shall be 1am- 

 fvl only in the following cases: 



I, When the holder of a concession or permit allows the participation or inter- 

 vention in his operations of a foreign government, 



II, When a concessionnaire transfers the rights of his authorization without the 

 previous and specific consent of the Ministry of Agriculture and Development, or the 

 holder of a permit effects the transfer thereof in violation of the provisions of 

 Article 25 of the Fishing Law. 



Ill, When the holder of a concession or permit defrauds the fiscal interests or 

 refiises to pay or deliver any amount that he may owe the Government, after being re- 

 quested to do so three times. 



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