Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Chapter 21 — Financial Recordkeeping
§ 1956. Criminal penalty
Statutory text
Whoever willfully violates any regulation under this chapter shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 91–508 title I § 126 · 84 Stat. 1114
Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 1956
(Pub. L. 91–508, title I, § 126, Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1118.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–508, title I, § 126, Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1118.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
§ 126. Criminal penalty Whoever willfully violates any regulation under this chapter shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on first day of seventh calendar month which begins after , except that the Secretary of the Treasury may, by regulation, provide that this section be effective on any date not earlier than the publication of such regulations in the Federal Register and not later than first day of thirteenth calendar month which begins after , see section 401(a), (b) of Pub. L. 91–508, set out as a note under section 1951 of this title.