---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 14703"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "14703"
heading: "Enforcement by the Attorney General"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/14703"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 147 — Enforcement; Investigations; Rights; Remedies"
---

# §14703. Enforcement by the Attorney General


The Attorney General may, and on request of either the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) or the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) shall, bring court proceedings—

- (1) to enforce this part or a regulation or order of the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) or [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) or terms of registration under this part; and
- (2) to prosecute a [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) violating this part or a regulation or order of the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) or [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) or term of registration under this part.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 905.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 11703 of this title 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.