Pennsylvania Act 1913-126 — SUPPLEMENTING ACT, DELAWARE RIVER NAVIGATION

Act text

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act, entitled "An act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Navigation for the river Delaware and its navigable tributaries; regulating their jurisdiction over ships, vessels, and boats, and wharves, piers, bulkheads, docks, slips, and basins; and exempting cities of the first class from certain of its provisions; and making an appropriation therefor," approved the eighth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and seven; giving to the Board of Commissioners of Navigation jurisdiction to make rules for regulating the speed of vessels navigating the Delaware River and its navigable tributaries, and fixing certain penalties for the violation thereof.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Board of Commissioners of Navigation for the river Delaware and its navigable tributaries shall have jurisdiction to make rules for regulating the speed of vessels navigating the Delaware River and its navigable tributaries, between Marcus Hook and Bristol, in the State of Pennsylvania: Provided, That such rules shall not extend to, impair, or in any way infringe on, the mutual arrangements entered into by this State and the State of New Jersey.

Section 2. That every master, officer, or other person, or persons, having charge of any vessel navigating the Delaware River and its navigable tributaries, who shall violate any rule regulating the speed of vessels, made and promulgated by the said commissioners, he or they, so offending, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for the first offense, and not less than seventy-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense; to be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, by the president of said Commissioners, for the use of the Commonwealth, before any magistrate of the city of Philadelphia, alderman, or justice of the peace of the proper county.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.