---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6745"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6745"
heading: "Recordkeeping violations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6745"
units:
  - "Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation"
  - "Subchapter III — Reports"
---

# §6745. Recordkeeping violations


It shall be unlawful for any [person](/usc/22/6701.md?p=6) willfully to fail or refuse—

- (1) to establish or maintain any record required by this chapter or any regulation prescribed under this chapter;
- (2) to submit any report, notice, or other information to the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) Government in accordance with this chapter or any regulation prescribed under this chapter; or
- (3) to permit access to or copying of any record that is exempt from disclosure under this chapter or any regulation prescribed under this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 405, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–883.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act” and was translated as reading “this division”, meaning div. I of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–856, known as the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. For complete classification of division I to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6701 of this title and Tables.