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[CITE: 49USC46310]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                     SUBTITLE VII--AVIATION PROGRAMS
 
                     PART A--AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY
 
                  subpart iv--enforcement and penalties
 
                         CHAPTER 463--PENALTIES
 
Sec. 46310. Reporting and recordkeeping violations

    (a) General Criminal Penalty.--An air carrier or an officer, agent, 
or employee of an air carrier shall be fined under title 18 for 
intentionally--
        (1) failing to make a report or keep a record under this part;
        (2) falsifying, mutilating, or altering a report or record under 
    this part; or
        (3) filing a false report or record under this part.

    (b) Safety Regulation Criminal Penalty.--An air carrier or an 
officer, agent, or employee of an air carrier shall be fined under title 
18, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both, for intentionally 
falsifying or concealing a material fact, or inducing reliance on a 
false statement of material fact, in a report or record under section 
44701(a) or (b) or any of sections 44702-44716 of this title.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1238; Pub. L. 103-
429, Sec. 6(56), Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4385.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
                                                 Pub. L. 103-272
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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46310.................................  49 App.:1472(e).                 Aug. 2
3, 1958, Pub. L. 85-726, Sec.
                                                                          902(e
), 72 Stat. 785; restated Sept.
                                                                          30, 1
987, Pub. L. 100-121, 101 Stat.
                                                                          792.
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    In this section, the word ``representative'' is omitted as surplus. 
The words ``account'' and ``memorandum'' are omitted as being included 
in ``record''.
    In subsection (a), before clause (1), the words ``fined under title 
18'' are substituted for ``fined not more than $5,000 in the case of an 
individual and not more than $10,000 in the case of a person other than 
an individual'' for consistency in this section and with title 18.
    In subsection (b), the words ``or representation'' are omitted a 
surplus.


                             Pub. L. 103-429

    This amends 49:44711(a)(2)(B), (5), and (7) and 46310(b) to correct 
erroneous cross-references.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-429 inserted ``any of sections'' 
before ``44702-44716''.


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-429 effective July 5, 1994, see section 9 
of Pub. L. 103-429, set out as a note under section 321 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 106 of this title.
