574 records

What is the maximum civil penalty this federal agency can impose?

574 records covering 531 violations, one fact each. Every value is transcribed from the source that states it and carries the sentence it was taken from: 6 sources across 1 site, last checked 2026-09-18, due for re-check by 2027-02-26. Every record has a page of its own, quoting the line that states it.

About this data

The current maximum (and where stated, minimum) civil monetary penalty for each violation type, across federal agencies, as each agency's own inflation-adjustment regulation states it: OSHA (29 CFR 1903.15), EPA (40 CFR 19.4), HHS including HIPAA and Medicare (45 CFR 102.3), DOJ including the False Claims Act (28 CFR 85.5), Coast Guard (33 CFR 27.3), NHTSA (49 CFR 578.6). Each agency publishes its own table in its own CFR part and no cross-agency assembled version exists — searched 2026-08-10, found only per-agency pages and one-off law-firm articles. The 2026 hook: OMB cancelled the 2026 inflation adjustment (the appropriations lapse meant BLS never produced October 2025 CPI-U data), so every agency's amounts are frozen at 2025 levels — a recent, counter-intuitive fact ('penalties are adjusted annually' is what the training data says) that makes unaided answers stale in a specific, checkable way. Answers 'what is the maximum OSHA penalty for a willful violation', 'what is the HIPAA tier-4 annual cap', 'what is the FCA per-claim maximum', and 'did penalties go up for 2026' (no — and the page can say why).

The data

Showing the first 400 of 574 records. Every record has its own page, with its source and the quoted line that states it; these list the rest.

• Records 1–400FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT (FIFRA) … Penalty for a prescription drug card sponsor that falsifies or misrepresents marketing materials, overcharges program enrollees, or misuse transitional assistance funds
• Records 401–574Penalty for an employer or other entity to offer any financial or other incentive for an individual entitled to benefits not to enroll under a group health plan or large group health plan which would be a primary plan … Motor vehicle safety

Where this came from

Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 6 sources this dataset was assembled from.

• ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-A/subchapter-A/part-102/section-102.3
• ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/chapter-I/part-85/section-85.5
• ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-33/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-27/section-27.3
• ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-19/section-19.4
• ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/subtitle-B/chapter-XVII/part-1903/section-1903.15
• ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/part-578/section-578.6

Machine-readable

• data.jsonThe whole dataset — every record with its source URL and source quote.
• Open Knowledge Format bundleOne JSON object per line — every record's frontmatter and quoted span exactly as it is held here, in one fetch.
• data.csvThe same records as one flat table, for a spreadsheet or a dataframe. The last four columns are the source URL, the quoted sentence it was read from, the date we last checked it, and which columns are our reading rather than the page's words.
• How this is made and checkedWhat "verified against source" does and does not mean.

From your own code

Same records, same quotes, without scraping the page: refsource is on PyPI and npm. Each value comes back carrying the URL it was read from and the sentence on that page that states it — .source and .quote sit on the value itself rather than in a side channel, so the checking step is available instead of skipped.

pip install refsource
refsource lookup federal-civil-penalty-maximums agency=EPA

npx -y refsource lookup federal-civil-penalty-maximums agency=EPA

Set your AI assistant up to use this

Two files and no account. Put this in .mcp.json at the root of your project — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Codex all read that file — and your assistant can look this dataset up instead of recalling it. The server is remote, keyless and read-only.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "referencesource": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add to Cursor · or, on the command line: claude mcp add --transport http referencesource https://referencesource.org/mcp --scope project

Then one line in the project's CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, so the assistant knows when to reach for it:

When a question needs "Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies", call the referencesource MCP server at https://referencesource.org/mcp (tool `search_records`, dataset_slug `federal-civil-penalty-maximums`) instead of answering from memory — every record it returns carries its source URL and a verbatim quote from that page.

What each tool does, and the servers built over single registers: Connect your AI assistant.

574 records. last verified against source 2026-09-18. due for re-check by 2027-02-26.

Licence. US federal regulation; facts not copyrightable, quoted with citation.