---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 937"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "937"
heading: "Certificate of compliance with chapter"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/937"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation"
---

# §937. Certificate of compliance with chapter


No stevedoring firm shall be employed in any [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) district by a [vessel](/usc/33/902.md?p=21) or by hull owners until it presents to such [vessel](/usc/33/902.md?p=21) or hull owners a certificate issued by a [deputy commissioner](/usc/33/902.md?p=7) assigned to such district that it has complied with the provisions of this chapter requiring the securing of [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) to its [employees](/usc/33/902.md?p=3). Any [person](/usc/33/902.md?p=1) violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 37, 44 Stat. 1442.)