---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5410"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5410"
heading: "Civil and criminal penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5410"
units:
  - "Chapter 70 — Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards"
---

# §5410. Civil and criminal penalties

- (a) Whoever violates any provision of [section 5409 of this title](/usc/42/5409.md), or any regulation or final order issued thereunder, shall be liable to the United States for a civil penalty of not to exceed $1,000 for each such [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c). Each [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) of a provision of [section 5409 of this title](/usc/42/5409.md), or any regulation or order issued thereunder shall constitute, a separate [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) with respect to each [manufactured home](/usc/42/5402.md?p=6) or with respect to each failure or refusal to allow or perform an act required thereby, except that the maximum civil penalty may not exceed $1,000,000 for any related series of [violations](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) occurring within one year from the date of the first [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c).
- (b) An individual or a [director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5), officer, or agent of a [corporation](/usc/42/2297h.md?p=2) who knowingly and willfully violates [section 5409 of this title](/usc/42/5409.md) in a manner which threatens the health or safety of any [purchaser](/usc/42/5402.md?p=10) shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–383, title VI, § 611, Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 705; Pub. L. 96–399, title III, § 308(c)(4), Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1641.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–399 substituted “manufactured home” for “mobile home”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of 180 days following Aug. 22, 1974, see section 627 of Pub. L. 93–383, set out as a note under section 5401 of this title.