---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 U.S.C. § 219"
title: "27"
title_heading: "Intoxicating Liquors"
number: "219"
heading: "Injunction proceedings; compromise of liability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/27/219"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Federal Alcohol Administration Act"
  - "Subchapter II — Alcoholic Beverage Labeling"
---

# §219. Injunction proceedings; compromise of liability

- (a) The several district courts of the [United States](/usc/27/214.md?p=12) are vested with jurisdiction, for cause shown, to prevent and restrain violations of this subchapter upon the application of the Attorney General of the [United States](/usc/27/214.md?p=12) acting through the several [United States](/usc/27/214.md?p=12) attorneys in their several districts.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/27/214.md?p=9) is authorized, with respect to any violation of this subchapter, to compromise the liability arising with respect to such violation upon payment of a sum for each offense, to be collected by the [Secretary](/usc/27/214.md?p=9) and to be paid into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

## Source credit

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title II, § 208, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(3), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4520.)