60 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



SUBCHAPTER IH.— EXCERPTS OF CERTAIN CRIMINAL LAWS 

 Misuse of Federal certificate, license, or document 

 18 U.S.C. 2197 



Whoever, not being lawfully entitled thereto, uses, exhibits, or 

 attempts to use or exhibit, or with intent unlawfully to use the same, 

 receives or possesses any certificate, license, or document issued to 

 vessels, or officers or seamen by any officer or employee of the United 

 States authorized by law to issue the same ; or 



Whoever, without authority, alters or attempts to alter any such 

 certificate, license, or document by addition, interpolation, deletion, 

 or erasure ; or 



Wlioever forges, counterfeits, or steals, or attempts to forge, coun- 

 terfeit, or steal, any such certificate, license, or document ; or unlaw- 

 fully possesses or knowingly uses any such altered, changed, forged, 

 counterfeit, or stolen certificate, license, or document ; or 



'Wlioever, without authority, prints or manufactures any blank 

 form of such certificate, license, or document, or 



Whoever possesses without lawful excuse, and with intent unlaw- 

 fully to use the same, any blank form of such certificate, license, or 

 document; or 



Whoever, in any manner, transfers, or negotiates such transfer of, 

 any blank form of such certificate, license, or document, or any such 

 altered, forged, counterfeit, or stolen certificate, license, or document, 

 or any such certificate, license or document to which the party 

 transferring or receiving the same is not lawfully entitled — 



Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than 

 five years, or both. 



Stowaways on vessels or aircraft 



18 U.S.C. 2199 



Wlioever, without the consent of the owner, charterer, master, or 

 l^erson in command of any vessel, or aircraft, with intent to obtain 

 transportation, boards, enters or secretes himself aboard such vessel or 

 aircraft and is thereon at the time of departure of said vessel or air- 

 craft from a port, harbor, wharf, airport or other place within the 

 jurisdiction of the United States ; or 



Wlioever, with like intent, having boarded, entered or secreted him- 

 self aboard a vessel or aircraft at any place within or without the 

 jurisdiction of the United States, remains aboard after the vessel or 

 aircraft has left such place and is thereon at any place within the 

 jurisdiction of the United States ; or 



Wlioever, with intent to obtain a ride or transportation, boards or 

 enters any aircraft owned or operated by the United States without 

 the consent of the person in command or other duly authorized officer 

 or agent — 



Shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 

 one year, or both. 



The word "aircraft" as used in this section includes any contrivance 

 for navigation or flight in the air. 



