100 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



Penalty for receiving passengers in absence of unexpired cer- 

 tificate of approval 



46 U.S.C. 402 (R.S. 4424) 



Whenever any passenger is received on board any steam vessel not 

 having an unexpired certificate of approval or an unexpired tem- 

 porary certificate of approval placed and kept as required by sec- 

 tions 399 and 400 of this title, such steam vessel shall be liable to 

 a penalty of $100 for each offense. 



Reinspections and notice for repairs; enforcement of require- 

 ments 



46 U.S.C. 435 (R.S. 4453) 



In addition to the annual or biennial inspection, the head of the 

 department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall require the 

 Coast Guard to examine, at proper times, inspected vessels arriving 

 and departing to and from their respective ports, so often as to 

 enable them to detect any neglect to comply with the requirements 

 of law, and also any defects or imperfections becoming apparent 

 after the inspection aforesaid, and tending to render the navigation 

 of such vessels unsafe; and if there shall be discovered any omission 

 to comply with the law, or that repairs have become necessary to 

 make such vessel safe, the master shall at once be notified in writing 

 as to what is required. All inspections and orders for repair shall 

 be made promptly. When it can be done safely, repairs may be 

 permitted to be made where those interested can most conveniently 

 do them. And whenever it is ascertained that any vessel subject to 

 the provisions of this title or Acts amendatory or supplementary 

 thereto, has been or is being navigated or operated without com- 

 plying with the terms of the vessel's certificate of inspection regard- 

 ing the number and class of licensed officers and crew, or without 

 complying with the provisions of law and her said certificate as to 

 the number or kind of life-saving or firefighting apparatus, or with- 

 out maintaining in good and efficient condition her lifeboats, fire 

 pumps, fire hose, and life preservers, or that for any other reason 

 said vessel cannot be operated with safety to life, the owner or 

 master of said vessel shall be ordered to correct such unlawful condi- 

 tions, and the vessel may be required to cease navigating at once 

 and to submit to reinspection ; and in case the said orders sliall not 

 at once be complied with, the vessel's certificate of inspection shall 

 be revoked, and the owner, master, or agent of said vessel sliall im- 

 mediately be given notice, in writing, of such revocation; and no 

 new certificate of inspection shall be again issued to her until the 

 provisions of this title or Acts amendatory or supplementary thereto 

 have been complied with. Any vessel subject to provisions of this 

 title or Acts amendatory or supplementary thereto operating or 

 navigating or attempting to operate or navigate after the revocation 

 of her certificate of inspection and before the issuance of a new 

 certificate, shall, upon application by a department or agency cliarged 

 with the enforcement of such title or Acts, to any district court of 

 the United States having jurisdiction, and by proper order or action 

 of said court in the premises, be seized summarily by way of libel 



