---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 16102"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "16102"
heading: "Recordkeeping and reporting violations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/16102"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part C — Pipeline Carriers"
  - "Chapter 161 — Civil and Criminal Penalties"
---

# §16102. Recordkeeping and reporting violations


A [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) required to make a report to the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1), or make, prepare, or preserve a record, under [chapter 157](/usc/49/chstIV/ptC/ch157.md) about [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) subject to this part that knowingly and willfully—

- (1) makes a false entry in the report or record,
- (2) destroys, mutilates, changes, or by another means falsifies the record,
- (3) does not enter business related facts and transactions in the record,
- (4) makes, prepares, or preserves the record in violation of a regulation or order of the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1), or
- (5) files a false report or record with the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1),

shall be fined under [title 18](/usc/18.md) or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 106(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 930.)

## 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).

### 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.