---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 11903"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "11903"
heading: "Record keeping and reporting violations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/11903"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part A — Rail"
  - "Chapter 119 — Civil and Criminal Penalties"
---

# §11903. Record keeping and reporting violations


A [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) required to make a report to the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1), or make, prepare, or preserve a record, under subchapter III of [chapter 111](/usc/49/chstIV/ptA/ch111.md) of this title about [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) subject to the jurisdiction of the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) under this part that knowingly and willfully—

- (1) makes a false entry in the report or record;
- (2) destroys, mutilates, changes, or by another means falsifies the record;
- (3) does not enter business related facts and transactions in the record;
- (4) makes, prepares, or preserves the record in violation of a regulation or order of the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1); or
- (5) files a false report or record with the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1),

shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 851.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 11909 of this title prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).

A prior section 11903, Pub. L. 95–473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1457, related to rate, discrimination, and tariff violations, prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a). See section 14903 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.