---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1720"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1720"
heading: "Criminal penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1720"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Royalty Management and Enforcement"
---

# §1720. Criminal penalties


Any [person](/usc/30/1702.md?p=12) who commits an act for which a civil [penalty](/usc/30/1702.md?p=29) is provided in [section 1719(d) of this title](/usc/30/1719.md?p=d) shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $50,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 110, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2455.)