---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3851"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3851"
heading: "Criminal enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3851"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Clean Hulls"
  - "Subchapter IV — Action on Violation, Penalties, and Referrals"
---

# §3851. Criminal enforcement


Any [person](/usc/33/3801.md?p=9) who knowingly violates paragraph (2), (3), (4), or (5) of [section 3841(a) of this title](/usc/33/3841.md?p=a) or [section 3841(b) of this title](/usc/33/3841.md?p=b) shall be fined under [title 18](/usc/18.md) or imprisoned not more than 6 years, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–281, title X, § 1041, Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 3029.)