49 U.S.C. § 21311 - Records and reports

• Cite as: 49 U.S.C. § 21311

(a) RECORDS AND REPORTS UNDER CHAPTER 201.-A person shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both, if the person knowingly and willfully-

(1) makes a false entry in a record or report required to be made or preserved under chapter 201 of this title;

(2) destroys, mutilates, changes, or by another means falsifies such a record or report;

(3) does not enter required specified facts and transactions in such a record or report;

(4) makes or preserves such a record or report in violation of a regulation prescribed or order issued under chapter 201 of this title; or

(5) files a false record or report with the Secretary of Transportation.

(b) ACCIDENT AND INCIDENT REPORTS.-A railroad carrier not filing a report in violation of section 20901 of this title shall be fined not more than $2,500. A separate violation occurs for each day the violation continues.

Cite as 49 U.S.C. § 21311

Source: <actcitation href="" statecd="US" sessionyear="1994" actaltid="103-272" description="To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to transportation, as subtitles II, III, and V-X of title 49, United States Code, "Transportation", and to make other technical improvements in...">Pub. L. 103-272</actcitation>, §1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 893; Pub. L. 110-432, div. A, title III, §310, Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4882.</note></notes-src>