Section 3902 · Penalties

When the owner, charterer, managing operator, agent, master, or individual in charge of a vessel carrying animals referred to in section 3901 of this title willfully violates, or causes or permits to be violated, a regulation prescribed under this chapter, the vessel may be prohibited from carrying any such animals from the United States for a period, of not more than one year, that the Secretary of Agriculture directs. The vessel may not be cleared from a port of the United States during that period.