---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 60104"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "60104"
heading: "Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/60104"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters"
  - "Chapter 601 — Prisons"
---

# §60104. Enforcement


Any person who is found in violation of the regulations established by sections [60101](/usc/34/60101.md) to 60104 of this title shall—

- (1) be liable to the United States for a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $10,000 for each violation and, in addition, to the United States for the costs of prosecution; and
- (2) make restitution to any entity of the United States, of a State, or of an inferior political subdivision of a State, which expends funds for the purpose of apprehending any [violent prisoner](/usc/34/60102.md?p=3) who escapes from a prisoner transport company as the result, in whole or in part, of a violation of regulations promulgated pursuant to [section 60103(a) of this title](/usc/34/60103.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–560, § 5, Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2786.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13726c of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.