Title 33Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73

§1512 Recordkeeping and inspection

Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 29— - DEEPWATER PORTS › § 1512

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

License holders must keep records, file reports, and give any information the Secretary requires after the Secretary talks with other federal agencies. Those rules cannot change or repeat rules made under part I of the Interstate Commerce Act or any other law. U.S. officials who enforce laws about deepwater ports must be allowed reasonable access to a licensed port to do their work. They can inspect records, operations, facilities, and equipment and run tests at reasonable times; inspections must be done promptly and the license holder must be told the results.

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Title 33, §1512

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(a)Each licensee shall establish and maintain such records, make such reports, and provide such information as the Secretary, after consultation with other interested Federal departments and agencies, shall by regulation prescribe to carry out the provision of this chapter. Such regulations shall not amend, contradict or duplicate regulations established pursuant to part I of the Interstate Commerce Act or any other law. Each licensee shall submit such reports and shall make such records and information available as the Secretary may request.
(b)All United States officials, including those officials responsible for the implementation and enforcement of United States laws applicable to a deepwater port, shall at all times be afforded reasonable access to a deepwater port licensed under this chapter for the purpose of enforcing laws under their jurisdiction or otherwise carrying out their responsibilities. Each such official may inspect, at reasonable times, records, files, papers, processes, controls, and facilities and may test any feature of a deep water port. Each inspection shall be conducted with reasonable promptness, and such licensee shall be notified of the results of such inspection.

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The Interstate Commerce Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Feb. 4, 1887, ch. 104, 24 Stat. 379. Part I of the Act, which was classified to chapter 1 (§ 1 et seq.) of former Title 49, Transportation, was repealed by Pub. L. 95-473, § 4(b), Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1467, the first section of which enacted subtitle IV (§ 10101 et seq.) of Title 49. For distribution of former sections of Title 49 into the revised Title 49, see Table at the beginning of Title 49.

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33 U.S.C. § 1512

Title 33Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73