---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2070"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2070"
heading: "Criminal penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2070"
units:
  - "Chapter 47 — Consumer Product Safety"
---

# §2070. Criminal penalties

- (a) Violation of [section 2068 of this title](/usc/15/2068.md) is punishable by—
  - (1) imprisonment for not more than 5 years for a knowing and willful violation of that section;
  - (2) a fine determined under [section 3571 of title 18](/usc/18/3571.md); or
  - (3) both.
- (b) Any individual director, officer, or agent of a corporation who knowingly and willfully authorizes, orders, or performs any of the acts or practices constituting in whole or in part a violation of [section 2068 of this title](/usc/15/2068.md) shall be subject to penalties under this section without regard to any penalties to which that corporation may be subject under [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c)
  - (1) In addition to the penalties provided by [subsection (a)](#a), the penalty for a criminal violation of this chapter or any other Act enforced by the [Commission](/usc/15/2052.md?p=a-4) may include the forfeiture of assets associated with the violation.
  - (2) In this subsection, the term “criminal violation” means a violation of this chapter or any other Act enforced by the [Commission](/usc/15/2052.md?p=a-4) for which the violator is sentenced to pay a fine, be imprisoned, or both.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–573, § 21, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1225; Pub. L. 110–314, title II, § 217(c)(1), (2), (d), Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3060.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–314, § 217(c)(1), amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows: “Any person who knowingly and willfully violates section 2068 of this title after having received notice of noncompliance from the Commission shall be fined not more than $50,000 or be imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–314, § 217(c)(2), struck out “, and who has knowledge of notice of noncompliance received by the corporation from the Commission,” after “section 2068 of this title”.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 110–314, § 217(d), added subsec. (c).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the sixtieth day following Oct. 27, 1972, see section 34 of Pub. L. 92–573, set out as a note under section 2051 of this title.