Federal · Title 14 — Coast Guard

14 U.S.C. § 547: Rewards for apprehension of persons interfering with aids to navigation

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

The Coast Guard may offer and pay monetary rewards for information leading to the apprehension, conviction, or discovery of persons interfering with navigation aids or missing Coast Guard property.

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The Coast Guard may offer and pay rewards for the apprehension and conviction, or for information helpful therein, of persons found interfering in violation of law with aids to navigation maintained by the Coast Guard; or for information leading to the discovery of missing Coast Guard property or to recovery thereof.

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