---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 661.18"
title: "49"
number: "661.18"
heading: "Intentional violations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/661.18"
---

# §661.18. Intentional violations.


A person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds authorized under the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2005 pursuant to [part 29 of this title](/cfr/49/part29.md) if it has been determined by a court or Federal agency that the person intentionally—

- (a) Affixed a label bearing a “Made in America” inscription, or an inscription with the same meaning, to a product not made in the United States, but sold in or shipped to the United States and used in projects to which this section applies, or
- (b) **Otherwise represented that any such product was produced in the United States.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 6303, Feb. 16, 1996, as amended at 72 FR 53698, Sept. 20, 2007]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5323(j) (formerly sec. 165 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97-424); as amended by sec. 337, Pub. L. 100-17; sec. 1048, Pub. L. 102-240; sec. 3020(b), Pub. L. 105-178; and sec. 3023(i) and (k), Pub. L. 109-59); 49 CFR 1.51.

### Source

Source: 56 FR 932, Jan. 9, 1991, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[61 FR 6303, Feb. 16, 1996, as amended at 72 FR 53698, Sept. 20, 2007]