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

(a) Prohibitions. No one may violate this chapter, a regulation made under it, or any term of a license issued or transferred under it. (b) General Authority. To enforce this chapter, the Secretary of Transportation may investigate and ask questions, put people under oath, and take sworn written statements. With proper legal authority, the Secretary may also enter — at a reasonable time — a launch site, reentry site, production facility, vehicle assembly site, crew or space flight participant training site, or payload integration site, to inspect equipment or required records. If there's probable cause to believe an object, record, or report was, is, or will likely be used to break this chapter, the Secretary may seize it. The Secretary may hand off enforcement duties to another federal agency's officers or employees, if that agency's head agrees. (c) Civil Penalty. After giving notice and a chance for a hearing, the Secretary can find someone violated subsection (a) and make them pay the government a civil penalty of up to $100,000. Each day the violation continues counts as a separate violation. During the hearing, the Secretary can subpoena witnesses and records, and can enforce that subpoena in federal court. The penalty must be imposed by written notice, but the Secretary may reduce or cancel a penalty already imposed or about to be imposed. If someone doesn't pay after the penalty becomes final, or after a court rules in the Secretary's favor, the Secretary must collect it.