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title: "36 U.S.C. § 509"
description: "Penalty"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "5"
chapter_name: "PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL CEREMONIES"
section: "509"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 509"
status: "current"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 509 - Penalty
## Text
A person violating a regulation prescribed under this chapter shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days. A separate violation occurs under this section for each day the violation continues.
(Pub. L. 105225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1265.)
## Notes
Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 50936:728 (3d, last sentences).Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 974, § 8 (3d, last sentences), 70 Stat. 1051; Jan. 30, 1968, Pub. L. 90251, § 3, 82 Stat. 4. The words “by the Council of the District of Columbia” and “the authority of” are omitted as unnecessary. The words “under title 18” are substituted for “not more than $100” for consistency with title 18. The words “A separate violation occurs under this section for each day the violation continues” are substituted for 36:728 (last sentence) for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code and to eliminate unnecessary words.