---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 15902"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "15902"
heading: "Enforcement by the Board"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/15902"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part C — Pipeline Carriers"
  - "Chapter 159 — Enforcement: Investigations, Rights, and Remedies"
---

# §15902. Enforcement by the Board


The [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) may bring a civil action to enforce an order of the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1), except a civil action to enforce an order for the payment of money, when it is violated by a [pipeline carrier](/usc/49/15102.md?p=2) providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) subject to this part.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 106(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 927.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 11702 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.