---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 14907"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "14907"
heading: "Recordkeeping and reporting violations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/14907"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 149 — Civil and Criminal Penalties"
---

# §14907. Recordkeeping and reporting violations


A [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) required to make a report to the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) or the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1), as applicable, answer a question, or make, prepare, or preserve a record under this part about [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) subject to jurisdiction under subchapter I or III of [chapter 135](/usc/49/chstIV/ptB/ch135.md), or an officer, agent, or employee of that [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18), that—

- (1) does not make that report;
- (2) does not specifically, completely, and truthfully answer that question in 30 days from the date the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) or [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1), as applicable, requires the question to be answered;
- (3) does not make, prepare, or preserve that record in the form and manner prescribed;
- (4) falsifies, destroys, mutilates, or changes that report or record;
- (5) files a false report or record;
- (6) makes a false or incomplete entry in that record about a business related fact or transaction; or
- (7) makes, prepares, or preserves a record in violation of an applicable regulation or order of the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) or [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1);

is liable to the [United States](/usc/49/10102.md?p=10) for a civil penalty of not more than $5,000.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 916.)

## 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).

### 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.