---
kind: "unit"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
key: "ch33"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 33"
heading: "Prevention of Pollution from Ships"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/ch33"
sections_count: 16
---

# Chapter 33 — Prevention of Pollution from Ships

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

## Sections

- [§1901. Definitions](/usc/33/1901.md)
- [§1902. Ships subject to preventive measures](/usc/33/1902.md)
- [§1902a. Repealed.](/usc/33/1902a.md)
- [§1903. Administration and enforcement](/usc/33/1903.md)
- [§1904. Certificates](/usc/33/1904.md)
- [§1905. Pollution reception facilities](/usc/33/1905.md)
- [§1906. Incidents involving ships](/usc/33/1906.md)
- [§1907. Violations](/usc/33/1907.md)
- [§1908. Penalties for violations](/usc/33/1908.md)
- [§1909. MARPOL Protocol; proposed amendments](/usc/33/1909.md)
- [§1910. Legal actions](/usc/33/1910.md)
- [§1911. Effect on other laws](/usc/33/1911.md)
- [§1912. International law](/usc/33/1912.md)
- [§1913. Compliance reports](/usc/33/1913.md)
- [§1914. Transferred](/usc/33/1914.md)
- [§1915. Repealed.](/usc/33/1915.md)