Every master, agent, or owner of any vessel, and every owner, agent, or manager of any railroad car, who discharges from or receives on or allows to be discharged from or received on the vessel or car any merchandise or other article, before the wharfage thereon has been paid, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
The warrant of arrest may be discharged at any time before trial by the payment of the wharfage on the goods wrongfully discharged or received, together with the cost of the legal proceedings. A receipt for wharfage, signed by a wharfinger or other proper officer of the Commission, is the only evidence of payment.
(Added as Sec. 1603 by Ord. 39-69, App. 1/28/69; redesignated by Ord. 230-17, File No. 171042, App. 12/6/2017, Eff. 1/5/2018)