---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3671"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3671"
heading: "Vessels carrying explosives and steerage passengers"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3671"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 232 — Miscellaneous Sentencing Provisions"
---

# §3671. Vessels carrying explosives and steerage passengers


The amount of any fine imposed upon the master of a steamship or other vessel under the provisions of [section 2278 of this title](/usc/18/2278.md) shall be a lien upon such vessel, and such vessel may be libeled therefor in the district [court of the United States](/usc/18/23.md) for any district in which such vessel shall arrive or from which it shall depart.


## Source credit

(Added Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 36, 68 Stat. 1239, § 3620; renumbered § 3671, Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 212(a)(1), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1987.)