42 U.S.C. § 7270b: Trespass on Strategic…

Summary

The Secretary may make rules that limit or forbid bringing weapons, explosives, or other dangerous items that could cause serious injury or damage onto the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, its storage sites, or other property the Secretary controls. The Secretary must post clear signs on the property about those rules. Anyone who willfully breaks those rules is guilty of a misdemeanor and, if convicted, can be fined up to $5,000, jailed for up to one year, or both.

Title 42, §7270b

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(a)The Secretary may 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 onto the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, its storage or related facilities, or real property subject to the jurisdiction, administration, or in the custody of the Secretary under part B of title I of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6231–6247). The Secretary shall post conspicuously, on the property subject to the regulations, notification that the property is subject to the regulations.

(b)Whoever willfully violates a regulation of the Secretary issued under subsection (a) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished upon conviction by a fine of not more than $5,000, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

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The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 94–163, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 871. Part B of title I of the Act is classified generally to part B (§ 6231 et seq.) of subchapter I of chapter 77 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 6201 of this title and Tables.

§7270b Trespass on Strategic Petroleum Reserve Facilities