15 U.S.C. § 717T
Section 717t · General penalties
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case Associated Gas Distributors v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1987)
Most recently applied in Total Gas & Power North America, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (June 2017)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Any person who willfully and knowingly does or causes or suffers to be done any act, matter, or thing in this chapter prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or who willfully and knowingly omits or fails to do any act, matter, or thing in this chapter required to be done, or willfully and knowingly causes or suffers such omission or failure, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) Any person who willfully and knowingly violates any rule, regulation, restriction, condition, or order made or imposed by the Commission under authority of this chapter, shall, in addition to any other penalties provided by law, be punished upon conviction thereof by a fine of not exceeding $50,000 for each and every day during which such offense occurs.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
2005—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–58, §314(a)(1)(A), substituted “$1,000,000” for “$5,000” and “5 years” for “two years”.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–58, §314(a)(1)(B), substituted “$50,000” for “$500”.