---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 11702"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "11702"
heading: "Enforcement by the Board"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/11702"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part A — Rail"
  - "Chapter 117 — Enforcement: Investigations, Rights, and Remedies"
---

# §11702. Enforcement by the Board


The [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) may bring a civil action—

- (1) to enjoin a [rail carrier](/usc/49/10102.md?p=5) from violating sections [10901](/usc/49/10901.md) through [10906](/usc/49/10906.md) of this title, or a regulation prescribed or order or certificate issued under any of those sections;
- (2) to enforce subchapter II of [chapter 113](/usc/49/chstIV/ptA/ch113.md) of this title and to compel compliance with an order of the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) under that subchapter; and
- (3) to enforce an order of the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1), except a civil action to enforce an order for the payment of money, when it is violated by a [rail carrier](/usc/49/10102.md?p=5) providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) subject to the jurisdiction of the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) under this part.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 845.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 11702, Pub. L. 95–473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1450; Pub. L. 96–296, §§ 15(c), 16(c), July 1, 1980, 94 Stat. 809, 810; Pub. L. 97–261, § 25(e), Sept. 20, 1982, 96 Stat. 1125; Pub. L. 98–554, title II, § 226(c)(5), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2851; Pub. L. 100–690, title IX, § 9111(j), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4534, related to authority of Interstate Commerce Commission to bring a civil action to enforce various provisions of this subtitle, prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a). See sections 11702, 14702, and 15902 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104–88, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.