51 U.S.C. § 50917 — Enforcement and penalty

(a) Prohibitions. A person may not violate this chapter, a regulation under it, or a term of a license issued or transferred under it. (b) General authority. (1) To carry out the chapter, the Secretary of Transportation may: (A) investigate and inquire; (B) administer oaths; (C) take affidavits; and (D) using lawful process, (i) enter at a reasonable time a launch or reentry site, production or assembly facility, crew or space-flight-participant training site, or payload-integration site to inspect an object covered by this chapter or a required record or report, and (ii) seize the object, record, or report when probable cause indicates it was, is, or likely will be used in violating the chapter. (2) With the agency head’s consent, the Secretary may delegate an enforcement duty or power to an officer or employee of another executive agency. (c) Civil penalty. (1) After notice and a chance for a hearing on the record, a person found by the Secretary to have violated subsection (a) owes the United States a civil penalty of up to $100,000. Each day a violation continues is a separate violation. (2) At the hearing, the Secretary may subpoena witnesses and records and enforce a subpoena in an appropriate federal district court. (3) The Secretary must impose the penalty by written notice and may compromise or cancel a penalty imposed or potentially imposable under this section. (4) The Secretary must recover a penalty that is unpaid after it becomes final or after a court enters final judgment for the Secretary.