---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 11906"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "11906"
heading: "General criminal penalty when specific penalty not provided"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/11906"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part A — Rail"
  - "Chapter 119 — Civil and Criminal Penalties"
---

# §11906. General criminal penalty when specific penalty not provided


When another criminal penalty is not provided under this chapter, 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, and when that [rail carrier](/usc/49/10102.md?p=5) is a corporation, a director or officer of the corporation, or a receiver, trustee, lessee, or [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) acting for or employed by the corporation that, alone or with another [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18), willfully violates this part or an order prescribed under this part, shall be fined not more than $5,000. The [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) may be imprisoned for not more than 2 years in addition to being fined under this section. A separate violation occurs each day a violation of this part continues.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 852; amended Pub. L. 105–102, § 2(7), Nov. 20, 1997, 111 Stat. 2204.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

### Pub. L. 105–102

This amends 49:11906 to correct an erroneous cross-reference.

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 11914 of this title prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).

A prior section 11906, Pub. L. 95–473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1459, related to evasion of regulation of motor carriers and brokers, prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a). See section 14906 of this title.

### Amendments

1997—Pub. L. 105–102 substituted “violation of this part” for “violation 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.