42 U.S.C. § 2278a: Trespass on Commission…

Summary

Allows the Commission to make rules that ban bringing dangerous weapons, explosives, or other harmful items onto any facility, property, or place it runs, controls, licenses, or certifies. Those rules must be posted where the property is easy to see. If someone breaks a posted rule on purpose, they can be fined up to $1,000. If the rule is broken on property that is fenced, walled, roofed, or otherwise enclosed, the person can be charged with a misdemeanor and fined up to $5,000, jailed for up to one year, or both.

Title 42, §2278a

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(a)Issuance and posting of regulations

(1)The Commission is authorized to issue regulations relating to the entry upon or carrying, transporting, or otherwise introducing or causing to be introduced any dangerous weapon, explosive, or other dangerous instrument or material likely to produce substantial injury or damage to persons or property, into or upon any facility, installation, or real property subject to the jurisdiction, administration, in the custody of the Commission, or subject to the licensing authority of the Commission or certification by the Commission under this chapter or any other Act.

(2)Every such regulation of the Commission shall be posted conspicuously at the location involved.

(b)Penalty for violation of regulations

Whoever shall willfully violate any regulation of the Commission issued pursuant to subsection (a) shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000.

(c)Penalty for violation of regulations regarding enclosed property

Whoever shall willfully violate any regulation of the Commission issued pursuant to subsection (a) with respect to any installation or other property which is enclosed by a fence, wall, floor, roof, or other structural barrier shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed $5,000 or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), 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

2005—Pub. L. 109–58, § 654(1), (2), substituted “on” for “upon” in section catchline and realigned margins. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–58, § 654(3), designated first sentence as par. (1), substituted “in the custody of the Commission, or subject to the licensing authority of the Commission or certification by the Commission under this chapter or any other Act” for “or in the custody of the Commission”, and designated second sentence as par. (2).

§2278a Trespass on Commission Installations