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ADMINISTRATIVE FINES AGAINST VESSELS
Sec 44. (a) If any vessel or aircraft arriving at a port of the Philippines from a place outside thereof –

  1. Fails to submit to the immigration officials at the port of arrival the crew list, duly visaed, and passenger manifest and other information required by regulations issued under section thirty-two of this Act.
  2. Fails to produce or satisfactorily account for every seaman or passenger whose name appears in such crew list or passenger manifest the pilot master, agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel or aircraft shall be subject to a fine of fifty pesos in the case of each person concerning who there is such failure.

(b) If any vessel or aircraft arriving at a port in the Philippines from a place outside thereof and having an alien on board –

  1. Fails to prevent the landing of such alien in the Philippines at any time or place other than as designated by the immigration officers;
  2. Refuses or fails to pay the cost of maintenance and other cost as required by section thirty-five of this Act, of such alien when temporarily removed from the vessel or aircraft for examination by order of the immigration officers;
  3. Refuses to receive such alien on board for removal form the Philippines, if he is excluded, or to pay the cost of his removal, if by another vessel or aircraft, as required by section thirty-six of this Act;
  4. Makes any charge against such alien for the cost referred to in clause (2) above, or for the cost of the removal of the alien from the Philippines if he is excluded, or takes any security from the alien for the payment of such cost the pilot, master, agent, owner or consignee of the vessel or aircraft shall be subject to a fine of five hundred pesos for each and every violation of these provisions in the case of each person concerning who there is such violation  

(c) If any vessel or aircraft arriving at a port in the Philippines from a place outside thereof brings on board any alien bound for the Philippines who is not properly documented as required by this Act, the pilot, master, agent, owner or consignee of the vessel or aircraft shall be subject to a fine of five hundred pesos in the case of each person brought.

(d) Whenever the Commissioner of Immigration shall find that there has been a violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section, the Commissioner of Immigration shall collect the fine and may enforce through the Collector of Customs, its payment against the vessel in the same manner as fines are collected and enforced against vessels under the customs law. The fines shall be deposited in the Philippines Treasury. No vessel shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the questions of the liability to the payment of such fine or while the fine remains unpaid, except upon deposit with the Bureau of Immigration of security sufficient to cover the fine.

(e) No action for proceeding for the enforcement of any fine for any violation of the provisions of the section shall be instituted more than five years after the violation is committed. [As amended by Republic Act No. 144 and Republic Act No. 503, Sec. 16]