---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 846.12"
title: "30"
number: "846.12"
heading: "When an individual civil penalty may be assessed."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/846.12"
---

# §846.12. When an individual civil penalty may be assessed.

- (a) Except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, the Office may assess an individual civil penalty against any corporate director, officer or agent of a corporate permittee who knowingly and willfully authorized, ordered or carried out a violation, failure or refusal.
- (b) The Office shall not assess an individual civil penalty in situations resulting from a permit violation by a corporate permittee until a cessation order has been issued by the Office to the corporate permittee for the violation, and the cessation order has remained unabated for 30 days.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 28 U.S.C. 2461, 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq., and 31 U.S.C. 3701.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 3675, Feb. 8, 1988, unless otherwise noted.