[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR10.15]

[Page 86]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation
 
PART 10_MAINTENANCE OF AND ACCESS TO RECORDS PERTAINING TO INDIVIDUALS
--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart B_General
 
Sec. 10.15  Protection of records.

    (a) No person may, without permission, remove any record made 
available for inspection or copying under this part from the place where 
it is made available. In addition, no person may steal, alter, mutilate, 
obliterate, or destroy, in whole or in part, such a record.
    (b) Section 641 of title 18 of the United States Code 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 10 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 of title 18 of the United States Code provides, in 
pertinent part, as follows:

    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 thing, 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 3 years, or both.