§ 1115. — Misconduct or neglect of ship officers.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 18USC1115]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 51--HOMICIDE
Sec. 1115. Misconduct or neglect of ship officers
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.
(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.
