---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 450"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "450"
heading: "Liability of vessel"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/450"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter III — New York Harbor, Harbor of Hampton Roads, and Harbor of Baltimore"
---

# §450. Liability of vessel


Any boat or vessel used or employed in violating any provision of this subchapter, shall be liable to the pecuniary penalties imposed thereby, and may be proceeded against, summarily by way of libel in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof.


## Source credit

(June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 4, 25 Stat. 210.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of section 4 of act June 29, 1888, which enacted sections 449 and 450 of this title.