---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 14909"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "14909"
heading: "Disobedience to subpoenas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/14909"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 149 — Civil and Criminal Penalties"
---

# §14909. Disobedience to subpoenas


Whoever does not obey a subpoena or requirement of the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) or the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) to appear and testify or produce records shall be fined under [title 18](/usc/18.md) or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 917.)

## 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).

### 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.