[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR190.229]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
 CHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                       TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 190_PIPELINE SAFETY PROGRAMS AND RULEMAKING PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart B_Enforcement
 
Sec. 190.229  Criminal penalties generally.

    (a) Any person who willfully and knowingly violates a provision of 
49 U.S.C. 60101 et seq. or any regulation or order issued thereunder 
shall upon conviction be subject for each offense to a fine of not more 
than $25,000 and imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
    (b) Any person who willfully violates a regulation or order under 
this subchapter issued under the authority of 49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq. as 
applied to offshore gas gathering lines shall upon conviction be subject 
for each offense to a fine of not more than $25,000, imprisonment for a 
term not to exceed 5 years, or both.
    (c) Any person who willfully and knowingly injures or destroys, or 
attempts to injure or destroy, any interstate transmission facility or 
any interstate pipeline facility (as those terms are defined in 49 
U.S.C. 60101 et seq.) shall, upon conviction, be subject for each 
offense to a fine of not more than $25,000, imprisonment for a term not 
to exceed 15 years, or both.
    (d) Any person who willfully and knowingly defaces, damages, 
removes, destroys any pipeline sign, right-of-way marker, or marine buoy 
required by 49 U.S.C. 60101 et seq. or 49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq., or any 
regulation or order issued thereunder shall, upon conviction, be subject 
for each offense to a fine of not more than $5,000, imprisonment for a 
term not to exceed 1 year, or both.
    (e) No person shall be subject to criminal penalties under paragraph 
(a) of this section for violation of any regulation and the violation of 
any order issued under Sec. 190.217, Sec. 190.219 or Sec. 190.229 if 
both violations are based on the same act.

[45 FR 20413, Mar. 27, 1980, as amended by Amdt. 190-2, 54 FR 32344, 
Aug. 7, 1989; Amdt. 190-4, 56 FR 63770, Dec. 5, 1991; Amdt. 190-6, 61 FR 
18515, Apr. 26, 1996]