
[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR10]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation
 
PART 10--MAINTENANCE OF AND ACCESS TO RECORDS PERTAINING TO INDIVIDUALS--Table 
of Contents
 
Subpart B--General

Sec. 10.11  Administration of part.

    Authority to administer this part in connection with the records of 
the Office of the Secretary is delegated to the Assistant Secretary for 
Administration. Authority to administer this part in connection with 
records in each operating administration is delegated to the 
Administrator concerned. An Administrator may redelegate to officers of 
that administration the authority to administer this part in connection 
with defined systems of records. An Administrator, however, may 
redelegate his or her duties under subparts F and G of this part only to 
his or her deputy and to not more than one other officer who reports 
directly to the Administrator and who is located at the headquarters of 
that administration or at the same location as the majority of that 
administration's systems of records.

[45 FR 8993, Feb. 11, 1980, as amended at 62 FR 23667, May 1, 1997]

Sec. 10.13  Privacy Act Officer.

    (a) To assist with implementation, evaluation, and administration 
issues, the Chief Information Officer appoints a principal coordinating 
official with the title Privacy Act Officer, and one Privacy Act 
Coordinator from his/her staff.
    (b) Inquiries concerning Privacy Act matters, or requests for 
assistance, may be addressed to the Privacy Act Officer (S-80), 
Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, DC 
20590.
    (c) Administrators may designate Privacy Act Officers or 
Coordinators to act as central coordinators within their administrations 
to assist them in administering the Act.

[45 FR 8993, Feb. 11, 1980, as amended by Amdt. 1-290, 62 FR 51804, Oct. 
3, 1997]

Sec. 10.15  Protection of records.

    (a) No person may, without permission, remove any record made 
available for inspection or copying under this part from the place where 
it is made available. In addition, no person may steal, alter, mutilate, 
obliterate, or destroy, in whole or in part, such a record.
    (b) Section 641 of title 18 of the United States Code provides, in 
pertinent part, as follows:

    Whoever * * * steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or 
the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of 
any record * * * or thing of value of the United States or of any 
department or agency thereof * * * shall be fined not more than $10,000 
or imprisoned not more than 10

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years or both; but if the value of such property does not exceed the sum 
of $100, he shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more 
than one year or both * * *.

    (c) Section 2071 of title 18 of the United States Code provides, in 
pertinent part, as follows:

    Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, 
obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or with intent to do so 
takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, 
document, or other thing, filed or deposited * * * in any public office, 
or with any * * * public officer of the United States, shall be fined 
not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both.
