---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 16105"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "16105"
heading: "General criminal penalty when specific penalty not provided"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/16105"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part C — Pipeline Carriers"
  - "Chapter 161 — Civil and Criminal Penalties"
---

# §16105. General criminal penalty when specific penalty not provided


When another criminal penalty is not provided under this chapter, a [pipeline carrier](/usc/49/15102.md?p=2) providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) subject to this part, and when that [carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=3) is a corporation, a director or officer of the corporation, or a receiver, trustee, lessee, or [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) acting for or employed by the corporation that, alone or with another [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18), willfully violates this part or an order prescribed under this part, shall be fined under [title 18](/usc/18.md) or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both. A separate violation occurs each day a violation of this part continues.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 106(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 931.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 11914 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.