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    49 USC Sec. 46507                                           01/08/2008

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    TITLE 49 - TRANSPORTATION
    SUBTITLE VII - AVIATION PROGRAMS
    PART A - AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY
    subpart iv - enforcement and penalties
    CHAPTER 465 - SPECIAL AIRCRAFT JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES

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    Sec. 46507. False information and threats

STATUTE

      An individual shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not
    more than 5 years, or both, if the individual -
        (1) knowing the information to be false, willfully and
      maliciously or with reckless disregard for the safety of human
      life, gives, or causes to be given, under circumstances in which
      the information reasonably may be believed, false information
      about an alleged attempt being made or to be made to do an act
      that would violate section 46502(a), 46504, 46505, or 46506 of
      this title; or
        (2)(A) threatens to violate section 46502(a), 46504, 46505, or
      46506 of this title, or causes a threat to violate any of those
      sections to be made; and
        (B) has the apparent determination and will to carry out the
      threat.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1245.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES --------------------------------------------------------------------

      Revised       Source (U.S. Code)       Source (Statutes at Large)
      Section
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    46507          49 App.:1472(m).        Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L.
                                            85-726, 72 Stat. 731, Sec.
                                            902(m); added Sept. 5, 1961,
                                            Pub. L. 87-197, Sec. 1, 75
                                            Stat. 467; restated Oct. 12,
                                            1984, Pub. L. 98-473, Sec.
                                            2014(d)(1), 98 Stat. 2190.
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      In this section, before clause (1), the words "fined under title
    18" are substituted for "fined not more than $25,000" for
    consistency with title 18. In clauses (1) and (2), the words "a
    felony" are omitted as surplus. In clause (1), the words "gives, or
    causes to be given" are substituted for "imparts or conveys or
    causes to be imparted or conveyed" to eliminate unnecessary words.
    The words "attempt or" are omitted as surplus. In clause (2), the
    words "threatens . . . or causes a threat . . . to be made" are
    substituted for "imparts or conveys or causes to be imparted or
    conveyed any threat" to eliminate unnecessary words.