
From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 49USC522]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                SUBTITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
                      CHAPTER 5--SPECIAL AUTHORITY
 
                        SUBCHAPTER II--PENALTIES
 
Sec. 522. Reporting and record keeping violations

    A person required to make a report to the Secretary of 
Transportation, or make, prepare, or preserve a record, under section 
504 of this title about transportation by rail carrier, that knowingly 
and willfully (1) makes a false entry in the report or record, (2) 
destroys, mutilates, changes, or by another means falsifies the record, 
(3) does not enter business related facts and transactions in the 
record, (4) makes, prepares, or preserves the record in violation of a 
regulation or order of the Secretary, or (5) files a false report or 
record with the Secretary, shall be fined not more than $5,000, 
imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.

(Pub. L. 97-449, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2436; Pub. L. 105-178, title 
IV, Sec. 4015(c), June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 412.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
522...................................  49:1655(f)(2).                   Oct. 1
5, 1966, Pub. L. 89-670, Sec.
                                                                          6(f)(
2), 80 Stat. 940.
522(b)................................  49:304(a)(3) (last sentence)     Feb. 4
, 1887, ch. 104, 24 Stat. 379,
                                         (related to ``Sec. 322(g)'').    Sec. 
 204(a)(3) (last sentence)
                                                                          (rela
ted to ``Sec. 222(g)''); added
                                                                          Aug. 
9, 1935, ch. 498, 49 Stat. 546.
                                        49:304(a)(3a) (last sentence)    Feb. 4
, 1887, ch. 104, 24 Stat. 379,
                                         (related to ``Sec. 322(g)'').    Sec. 
 204(a)(3a) (last sentence)
                                                                          (rela
ted to ``Sec. 222(g)''); added
                                                                          Aug. 
3, 1956, ch. 905, Sec.  2, 70
                                                                          Stat.
 958.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------

    The section is included because 49:1655(f)(2) gave the same 
administrative powers exercised by the Interstate Commerce Commission 
under certain sections of title 49 to the Secretary of Transportation to 
carry out duties transferred to the Secretary by 49:1655(e). See the 
revision notes for section 501 of the revised title for an explanation 
of the transfer under 49:1655(f)(2). The powers of the Commission have 
been codified in subtitle IV of the revised title. The comparable 
provisions of title 49 that are represented by the section may be found 
as follows:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
                                                                               
                        Revised
                Section 522                                       49 U.S. Code 
                        Section
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
(a)........................................  20(7)(b) (less proviso).          
                            11909
(b)........................................  322(g).                           
                            11909
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------

    See the revision notes for the revised section for an explanation of 
changes made in the text. Changes not accounted for in those revision 
notes are as follows:
    The text of 49:304(a)(3) (last sentence 1st-7th words) and (3a) 
(last sentence 1st-5th words) is omitted as executed.


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-178 struck out ``(a)'' before ``A person required 
to make a report to the Secretary of Transportation'' and struck out 
subsec. (b) which read as follows: ``A person required to make a report 
to the Secretary, answer a question, or make, prepare, or preserve a 
record under section 504 of this title about transportation by motor 
carrier, motor carrier of migrant workers, or motor private carrier, or 
an officer, agent, or employee of that person, that (1) willfully does 
not make that report, (2) willfully does not specifically, completely, 
and truthfully answer that question in 30 days from the date the 
Secretary requires the question to be answered, (3) willfully does not 
make, prepare, or preserve that record in the form and manner prescribed 
by the Secretary, (4) knowingly and willfully falsifies, destroys, 
mutilates, or changes that report or record, (5) knowingly and willfully 
files a false report or record with the Secretary, (6) knowingly and 
willfully makes a false or incomplete entry in that record about a 
business related fact or transaction, or (7) knowingly and willfully 
makes, prepares, or preserves a record in violation of a regulation or 
order of the Secretary, shall be fined not more than $5,000.''
