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[CITE: 49USC11906]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                 SUBTITLE IV--INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION
 
                              PART A--RAIL
 
                CHAPTER 119--CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES
 
Sec. 11906. General criminal penalty when specific penalty not 
        provided
        
    When another criminal penalty is not provided under this chapter, a 
rail carrier providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the 
Board under this part, and when that rail carrier is a corporation, a 
director or officer of the corporation, or a receiver, trustee, lessee, 
or person acting for or employed by the corporation that, alone or with 
another person, willfully violates this part or an order prescribed 
under this part, shall be fined not more than $5,000. The person may be 
imprisoned for not more than 2 years in addition to being fined under 
this section. A separate violation occurs each day a violation of this 
part continues.

(Added Pub. L. 104-88, title I, Sec. 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 
852; amended Pub. L. 105-102, Sec. 2(7), Nov. 20, 1997, 111 Stat. 2204.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

                             Pub. L. 105-102

    This amends 49:11906 to correct an erroneous cross-reference.


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
section 11914 of this title prior to the general amendment of this 
subtitle by Pub. L. 104-88, Sec. 102(a).
    A prior section 11906, Pub. L. 95-473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1459, 
related to evasion of regulation of motor carriers and brokers, prior to 
the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104-88, Sec. 102(a). 
See section 14906 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1997--Pub. L. 105-102 substituted ``violation of this part'' for 
``violation of this title''.
