---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 11905"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "11905"
heading: "Disobedience to subpoenas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/11905"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part A — Rail"
  - "Chapter 119 — Civil and Criminal Penalties"
---

# §11905. Disobedience to subpoenas


A [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) not obeying a subpoena or requirement of the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) to appear and testify or produce records shall be fined at least $100 but not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 852.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 11913 of this title prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).

A prior section 11905, Pub. L. 95–473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1459; Pub. L. 97–261, § 29(e), Sept. 20, 1982, 96 Stat. 1128, related to transportation of passengers without charge, prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).

### 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.