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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1115                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 51 - HOMICIDE

HEAD

    Sec. 1115. Misconduct or neglect of ship officers

STATUTE

      Every captain, engineer, pilot, or other person employed on any
    steamboat or vessel, by whose misconduct, negligence, or
    inattention to his duties on such vessel the life of any person is
    destroyed, and every owner, charterer, inspector, or other public
    officer, through whose fraud, neglect, connivance, misconduct, or
    violation of law the life of any person is destroyed, shall be
    fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or
    both.
      When the owner or charterer of any steamboat or vessel is a
    corporation, any executive officer of such corporation, for the
    time being actually charged with the control and management of the
    operation, equipment, or navigation of such steamboat or vessel,
    who has knowingly and willfully caused or allowed such fraud,
    neglect, connivance, misconduct, or violation of law, by which the
    life of any person is destroyed, shall be fined under this title or
    imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 757; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 461 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 282, 35 Stat. 1144).
      Section restores the intent of the original enactments, R.S. Sec.
    5344, and act Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1454, Sec. 5, 33 Stat. 1025, and
    makes this section one of general application. In the Criminal Code
    of 1909, by placing it in chapter 11, limited to places within the
    special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States,
    such original intent was inadvertently lost as indicated by the
    entire absence of report or comment on such limitation.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $10,000" in two places.