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Title 45 — RailroadsRelease 119-73not60

§359 Penalties

Title 45 › Chapter 11— RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE › § 359

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

People who deliberately refuse to give reports or information required under this law, or who lie in reports or claims to get or stop benefits, can be fined up to $10,000, jailed for up to one year, or both. Any deal that makes an employee pay all or part of the employer’s required contribution is void. Employers may not make employees pay that contribution. Breaking that rule also can bring a fine up to $10,000, jail up to one year, or both. Other violations of this chapter (if no other penalty is listed) can bring a fine up to $1,000, jail up to one year, or both. Fines collected by the court must be sent to the U.S. Treasury and added to the chapter’s account.

Full Legal Text

Title 45, §359

Railroads — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Any officer or agent of an employer, or any employee representative, or any employee acting in his own behalf, or any person whether or not of the character hereinbefore defined, who shall willfully fail or refuse to make any report or furnish any information required by the Board in the administration of this chapter, or who shall knowingly make or aid in making or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statement or report when a statement or report is required to be made for the purposes of this chapter, or who shall knowingly make or aid in making or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statement or claim for the purpose of causing benefits or other payment to be made or not to be made under this chapter, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
(b)Any agreement by an employee to pay all or any portion of the contribution required of his employer under this chapter shall be void, and it shall be unlawful for any employer, or officer or agent of an employer, to make, require, or permit any employee to bear all or any portion of such contribution. Any employer, or officer or agent of an employer, who violates any provision of this subsection shall be punished for each such violation by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
(c)Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, the punishment for which is not otherwise provided, shall be punished for each such violation by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
(d)All fines and penalties imposed by a court pursuant to this chapter shall be paid to the court and be remitted from time to time by order of the judge to the Treasury of the United States to be credited to the account.

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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act June 25, 1938, ch. 680, 52 Stat. 1094, which enacted this chapter and amended section 503 and 1104 and former section 1107 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 367 of this title and Tables.

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Citation

45 U.S.C. § 359

Title 45 — Railroads

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60