# Controlled Substance Import Export Act; Drug abuse, import or export — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Controlled Substance Import Export Act; Drug abuse, import or export, agency is DOJ; statutory authority is 21 U.S.C. 961(1); maximum penalty is 91,245, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** DOJ _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Controlled Substance Import Export Act; Drug abuse, import or export _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 21 U.S.C. 961(1) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 91,245 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> <https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/21/961> 21 U.S.C. 961(1) | Controlled Substance Import Export Act; Drug abuse, import or export | <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/section-85.3#p-85.3(d)> 28 CFR 85.3(d) | 88,934 | 91,245

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/chapter-I/part-85/section-85.5

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-26.
Part of [Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies](https://referencesource.org/federal-civil-penalty-maximums/).