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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management

§ 1720. Criminal penalties

Statutory text

Any person who commits an act for which a civil penalty is provided in section 1719(d) of this title shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $50,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 2 years, 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.

  1. Pub. L. 97–451 title I § 110 · 96 Stat. 2447

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1720

    (Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 110, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2455.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 110, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2455.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 110. criminal penalties Any person who commits an act for which a civil penalty 30 USC 1720. is provided in section 109(d) shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $50,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or both.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 110, , 96 Stat. 2455.)

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