Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation
§ 1294. Penalty
Statutory text
Any person who shall, except as permitted by law, willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with the Secretary or any of his agents in the performance of duties pursuant to this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for 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.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
Pub. L. 95–87 title VII § 704 · 91 Stat. 445
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1294
(Pub. L. 95–87, title VII, § 704, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 520.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 95–87, title VII, § 704, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 520.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 704. protection of government employees Section 1114, title 18, United States Code, is hereby amended by adding the words “or of the Department of the Interior” after the words “Department of Labor” contained in that section. Any Penalty. 30 USC 1294. person who shall, except as permitted by law, willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with the Secretary or any of his agents in the performance of duties pursuant to this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Section 704 of Pub. L. 95–87 also amended section 1114 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.