[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 6]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR801.12]

[Page 144-145]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                              SAFETY BOARD
 
PART 801--PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart B--Administration
 
Sec. 801.12  Protection of records.

    (a) No person may, without permission, remove from the place where 
it is

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made available any record made available to him for inspection or 
copying. Stealing, altering, multilating, obliterating, or destroying, 
in whole or in part, such a record shall be deemed a crime.
    (b) Section 641 of title 18 of the U.S.C. provides, in pertinent 
part, as follows:

    ``Whoever * * * steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use 
or the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes 
of any record * * * or thing of value of the United States or of any 
department or agency thereof * * * Shall be fined not more than $10,000 
or imprisoned not more than ten years or both; but if the value of such 
property does not exceed the sum of $100, he shall be fined not more 
than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. * * *''

    (c) Section 2071(a) of title 18 of the U.S.C. provides, in pertinent 
part, as follows:

    ``(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, 
obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so 
takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, 
document, or other things, filed or deposited * * * in any public 
office, or with any * * * public officer of the United States, shall be 
fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or 
both.''