42 U.S.C. § 2277: Disclosure of Restricted Data

Summary

Makes it a crime for current or former Commission members or employees, members of the Armed Forces, federal agency employees, contractors (and their employees), and licensees (and their employees) to knowingly share, get, or plan to share or get Restricted Data with someone not allowed to have it. The person must have known or had reason to believe the information was Restricted Data and that the recipient was not authorized. A conviction can bring a fine of up to $12,500.

Title 42, §2277

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Whoever, being or having been an employee or member of the Commission, a member of the Armed Forces, an employee of any agency of the United States, or being or having been a contractor of the Commission or of an agency of the United States, or being or having been an employee of a contractor of the Commission or of an agency of the United States, or being or having been a licensee of the Commission, or being or having been an employee of a licensee of the Commission, knowingly communicates, or whoever conspires to communicate or to receive, any Restricted Data, knowing or having reason to believe that such data is Restricted Data, to any person not authorized to receive Restricted Data pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or under rule or regulation of the Commission issued pursuant thereto, knowing or having reason to believe such person is not so authorized to receive Restricted Data shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than $12,500.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 919, known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2011 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1999—Pub. L. 106–65 substituted “$12,500” for “$2,500”.

§2277 Disclosure of Restricted Data