---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 507"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "507"
heading: "Violation of Great Lakes Agreement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/507"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication"
  - "Subchapter V — Penal Provisions; Forfeitures"
---

# §507. Violation of Great Lakes Agreement

- (a) Any [vessel](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A) of the [United States](/usc/47/153.md?p=58) that is navigated in violation of the provisions of the [Great Lakes Agreement](/usc/47/153.md?p=22) or the rules and regulations of the Commission made in pursuance thereof and any [vessel](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A) of a foreign country that is so navigated on waters under the jurisdiction of the [United States](/usc/47/153.md?p=58) shall forfeit to the [United States](/usc/47/153.md?p=58) the sum of $500 recoverable by way of suit or libel. Each day during which such navigation occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
- (b) Every willful failure on the part of the master of a [vessel](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A) of the [United States](/usc/47/153.md?p=58) to enforce or to comply with the provisions of the [Great Lakes Agreement](/usc/47/153.md?p=22) or the rules and regulations of the Commission made in pursuance thereof shall cause him to forfeit to the [United States](/usc/47/153.md?p=58) the sum of $100.

## Source credit

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, § 506, formerly § 507, as added Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 735, § 3, 68 Stat. 729; renumbered § 506, Pub. L. 96–507, § 1, Dec. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 2747.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 506 of act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, was classified to section 506 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–507.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section 6 of act Aug. 13, 1954, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section and amending sections 153, 154, and 504 of this title] shall take effect on November 13, 1954.”