---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 2282B"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "2282B"
heading: "Violence against aids to maritime navigation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/2282B"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 111 — Shipping"
---

# §2282B. Violence against aids to maritime navigation


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1) intentionally destroys, seriously damages, alters, moves, or tampers with any aid to maritime navigation maintained by the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation under the authority of section 4 of the Act of May 13, 1954 ([33 U.S.C. 984](/usc/33/984.md)), by the Coast Guard pursuant to [section 81](/usc/18/81.md)[^1] of title 14, United States Code, or lawfully maintained under authority granted by the Coast Guard pursuant to [section 83 of title 14](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(/us/usc/t14/s83)), United States Code, if such act endangers or is likely to endanger the safe navigation of a ship, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–177, title III, § 304(b)(1), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 235; Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title V, § 512(c)(2), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2756.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 81 of title 14, referred to in text, was redesignated section 541 of title 14 by Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 105(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4200, and references to section 81 of title 14 deemed to refer to such redesignated section, see section 123(b)(1) of Pub. L. 115–282, set out as a References to Sections of Title 14 as Redesignated by Pub. L. 115–282 note preceding section 101 of Title 14, Coast Guard.

### Amendments

2020—Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation” for “Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation”.