---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 455"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "455"
heading: "General penalty provision"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/455"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Foreign Wars, War Materials, and Neutrality"
  - "Subchapter II — Neutrality"
---

# §455. General penalty provision


In every case of the violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter or of any rule or regulation issued pursuant thereto where a specific penalty is not provided in this subchapter, such violator or violators, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.


## Source credit

(Nov. 4, 1939, ch. 2, § 15, 54 Stat. 11.)