CFR > Title 49 - Transportation > SUBTITLE A—Office of the Secretary of Transportation > PART 7—PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION > SUBPART B—Information Required To Be Made Public by DOT (§7.3 to §7.10) > 7.9—Protection of records.

7.9—Protection of records.

(a) Records made available for inspection and copying may not be removed, altered, destroyed, or mutilated.
(b) 18 U.S.C. 641 provides for criminal penalties for embezzlement or theft of government records.
(c) 18 U.S.C. 2071 provides for criminal penalties for the willful and unlawful concealment, mutilation or destruction of, or the attempt to conceal, mutilate, or destroy, government records.