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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part C · Chapter 92 — Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use

§ 8432. Criminal penalties

Statutory text

Any person who willfully violates any provision of this chapter, or any rule or order thereunder, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $50,000, or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for each violation.

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. 95–620 title VII § 722 · 92 Stat. 3289

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 8432

    Pub. L. 95–620, title VII, § 722, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3333

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 95–620, title VII, § 722, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3333

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC 722. CRIMINAL PENALTIES. Any person who willfully violates any provision of this Act (other than section 402), or any rule or order thereunder, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $50,000, or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for each violation.

  2. Pub. L. 100–42 § 1(c)(19) · 101 Stat. 310

    Struck · 42 U.S.C. § 8432

    Pub. L. 100–42 struck out “(other than section 8372 of this title)” after “this chapter”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 100–42 struck out “(other than section 8372 of this title)” after “this chapter”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (19) Section 722 of the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 8432) is amended by striking “(other than section 402)”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–620, , 92 Stat. 3289, known as the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 8301 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1987—Pub. L. 100–42 struck out “(other than section 8372 of this title)” after “this chapter”.

Credits

1978–1987 · 2 acts
  1. 1978Pub. L. 95–620, title VII, § 722, , 92 Stat. 3333
  2. 1987Pub. L. 100–42, § 1(c)(19), , 101 Stat. 313.
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(Pub. L. 95–620, title VII, § 722, , 92 Stat. 3333; Pub. L. 100–42, § 1(c)(19), , 101 Stat. 313.)

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