[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1, Parts 0 to 299]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR280.202]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
 CHAPTER II--NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 280--FASTENER QUALITY--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart C--Enforcement
 
Sec. 280.202  Penalties, remedies, and sanctions.

    (a) Civil remedies. The Attorney General may bring an action in an 
appropriate United States district court for declaratory and injunctive 
relief against any person who violates the Act or any regulation issued 
thereunder. Such action may not be brought more than 10 years after the 
cause of action accrues.
    (b) Civil penalties. Any person who is determined, after notice and 
opportunity for a hearing, to have violated the Act or any regulation 
issued thereunder shall be liable to the United States for a civil 
penalty of not more than $25,000 for each violation.
    (c) Criminal penalties. (1) Whoever knowingly certifies, marks, 
offers for sale, or sells a fastener in violation of the Act or a 
regulation issued thereunder shall be fined under title 18, United 
States Code, or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
    (2) Whoever intentionally fails to maintain records relating to a 
fastener in violation of the Act or a regulation issued thereunder shall 
be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 
five years or both.
    (3) Whoever negligently fails to maintain records relating to a 
fastener in violation of the Act or a regulation issued thereunder shall 
be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 
two years or both.