---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 70119"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "70119"
heading: "Civil penalty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/70119"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Security and Drug Enforcement"
  - "Chapter 701 — Port Security"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §70119. Civil penalty

- (a) **In General.—** Any person that violates this chapter or any regulation under this chapter shall be liable to the United States for a civil penalty of not more than $25,000 for each day during which the violation continues.
- (b) **Continuing Violations.—** The maximum amount of a civil penalty for a violation under this section shall not exceed $50,000.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–295, title I, § 102(a), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2084, § 70117; renumbered § 70119, Pub. L. 108–293, title VIII, § 802(a)(1), Aug. 9, 2004, 118 Stat. 1078; amended Pub. L. 109–241, title III, § 306(a), July 11, 2006, 120 Stat. 528.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Another section 70119 was renumbered section 70118 of this title.

### Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–241 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, substituted “day during which the violation continues” for “violation”, and added subsec. (b).