Exhibit 743 ยท Statute
5 U.S.C. 13106, Failure to file or filing false reports (Ethics in Government Act, former s.104)
shall, at the direction of and pursuant to regulations issued by the supervising ethics office, pay a filing fee of $200.
(a) The Attorney General may seek a civil penalty up to $50,000 for knowing and willful failure to file or falsification; knowing and willful failure to file is a crime punishable by a fine, and falsification by fine or up to 1 year. (b) Each congressional ethics committee must refer to the Attorney General any individual it has reasonable cause to believe willfully failed to file. (d) A filer more than 30 days late pays $200, and the supervising ethics office may waive the fee in extraordinary circumstances.
- Source
- Office of the Law Revision Counsel (via Cornell LII)
- Date
- Current text; codified by Pub. L. 117-286, 27 December 2022
- Quoted from
- s.13106(d)(1)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/13106
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- The $200 fee predates the 2022 codification (former EIGA s.104(d), 5 U.S.C. app. 104).