# Failure to Stop Vessel When Directed; Master, Owner, Operator or Person in Charge—Minimum Penalty — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Failure to Stop Vessel When Directed; Master, Owner, Operator or Person in Charge, agency is U.S. Coast Guard; violation is Failure to Stop Vessel When Directed; Master, Owner, Operator or Person in Charge—Minimum Penalty; statutory authority is 19 U.S.C. 1581(d); minimum penalty is 1,000, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** U.S. Coast Guard _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Failure to Stop Vessel When Directed; Master, Owner, Operator or Person in Charge—Minimum Penalty _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 19 U.S.C. 1581(d) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Minimum penalty:** 1,000 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> <https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/19/1581> 19 U.S.C. 1581(d) | Failure to Stop Vessel When Directed; Master, Owner, Operator or Person in Charge—Minimum Penalty 1 | 1,000.

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-33/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-27/section-27.3

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-26.
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