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Office of the Chief of Marine Inspection will take action under the 
provisions of R.S. 4450, as amended, (36 Stat. 1167; 46 U.S.C. 239) 
for the revocation or suspension of the license or certificate. Any 
action taken in this connection is to be regarded as incidental to and 
independent of the statutory prosecution as decided upon by the District 
Engineer. 
15. Penalties for Violations. 
a. Section 12 of the River and Harbor Act approved 3 March 
1899 (30 Stat. 1151; 33 U.S.C. 406), as amended, provides that every 
person and every corporation that shall violate any of the provisions 
of sections 9 and 10 of that Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
On conviction thereof violators shall be punished by fine, imprisonment, 
or both, in the discretion of the court. The removal of any structures 
or parts of structures erected in violation of the provisions of the 
said sections may be enforced by the injunction of any district court 
exercising jurisdiction in any district in which such structures may 
exist. Proper proceedings to this end may be instituted under the 
direction of the Attorney General. 
b. Section 16 of the River and Harbor Act approved 3 March 
1899 (30 Stat. 1153; 33 U.S.C. 412) provides that every person and 
every corporation that shall violate, or that shall knowingly aid, 
abet, authorize, or instigate a violation of the provisions of sections 
13, 14, and 15 of the Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. On con- 
viction thereof violators shall be punished by a fine, imprisonment, 
or both, in the discretion of the court. Any master, pilot, and 
engineer, or person or persons acting in such capacity, respectively, 
on board of any boat or vessel who shall engage knowingly in towing any 
eraft loaded with any material specified in section 13 of the above- 
mentioned Act to any point or place of deposit or discharge in any 
harbor or navigable water, elsewhere than within the limits defined and 
permitted by the Secretary of the Army, or who shall willfully injure 
or destroy any work of the United States contemplated in section 14 of 
the Act, or who shall willfully obstruct the channel of any waterway 
in the manner contemplated in section 15 of the Act, shall be deemed 
guilty of a violation of the Act. Upon conviction he shall be punished 
as provided in this section, and shall also have his license revoked 
or suspended for a term to be fixed by the judge before whom tried and 
convicted. Any craft used or employed in violating any of the provisions 
of sections 13, 14, and 15 shall be liable for the pecuniary penalties 
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