15 USC § 1717 - Penalties for violations

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title: "15 USC § 1717 - Penalties for violations"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "1717"
section_name: "Penalties for violations"
chapter_number: 42
chapter_name: "INTERSTATE LAND SALES"
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last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 90–448, title XIV, § 1418, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 598; Pub. L. 96–153, title IV, § 408, Dec. 21, 1979, 93 Stat. 1132.)"
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# § 1717. Penalties for violations

Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this chapter, or the rules and regulations prescribed pursuant thereto, or any person who willfully, in a statement of record filed under, or in a property report issued pursuant to, this chapter, makes any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein, shall upon conviction be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 90–448, title XIV, § 1418, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 598; Pub. L. 96–153, title IV, § 408, Dec. 21, 1979, 93 Stat. 1132.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1979— substituted “$10,000” for “$5,000”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1979 Amendment

Amendment by  effective on effective date of regulations implementing such amendment, but in no case later than six months following , see , set out as a note under .

### Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of two hundred and seventy days after , see , set out as a note under .