---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 U.S.C. § 218"
title: "27"
title_heading: "Intoxicating Liquors"
number: "218"
heading: "Civil penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/27/218"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Federal Alcohol Administration Act"
  - "Subchapter II — Alcoholic Beverage Labeling"
---

# §218. Civil penalties


Any [person](/usc/27/214.md?p=7) who violates the provisions of this subchapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $10,000, and each day shall constitute a separate offense.


## Source credit

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title II, § 207, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(3), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4520.)