---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 3111"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "3111"
heading: "Criminal penalty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/3111"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Foreign Bank Participation in Domestic Markets"
---

# §3111. Criminal penalty


Whoever, with the intent to deceive, to gain financially, or to cause financial gain or loss to any [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19), knowingly violates any provision of this chapter or any regulation or order issued by the [appropriate Federal banking agency](/usc/12/1861.md?p=b-1) under this chapter shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years or fined not more than $1,000,000 for each day during which a violation continues, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–369, § 17, as added Pub. L. 102–242, title II, § 213, Dec. 19, 1991, 105 Stat. 2303.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

For definition of “this chapter”, referred to in text, see References in Text note set out under section 3101 of this title.