---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13262"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13262"
heading: "Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13262"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter III — Availability and Use of Replacement Fuels, Alternative Fuels, and Alternative Fueled Private Vehicles"
---

# §13262. Enforcement

- (a) **Violation—** Whoever violates [section 13261 of this title](/usc/42/13261.md) shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c).
- (b) **Willful violation—** Whoever willfully violates [section 13261 of this title](/usc/42/13261.md) shall be fined not more than $10,000 for each [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c).
- (c) **Knowing and willful violation following prior violation and penalty—** Any person who knowingly and willfully violates [section 13261 of this title](/usc/42/13261.md) after having been subjected to a civil penalty for a prior [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) of [section 13261 of this title](/usc/42/13261.md) shall be fined not more than $50,000.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title V, § 512, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2899.)