"TxSrv" wrote in message
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Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

After a quick and possibly incorrect search this may be you legal catch
all.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/h...6----000-.html


W/o reading other parts of that statute (believe it's the Aviation Safety
Act, empowering DOT and the FAA as to all their stuff), it refers to
"criminal fine" only. No jail?

Fred F.


I found it, I found it. At least I think I did.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/h...7----000-.html

Criminal penalty for pilots operating in air transportation without an
airman's certificate

(a) General Criminal Penalty.- An individual shall be fined under title 18
or imprisoned for not more than 3 years, or both, if that individual-
(1) knowingly and willfully serves or attempts to serve in any capacity as
an airman operating an aircraft in air transportation without an airman's
certificate authorizing the individual to serve in that capacity; or
(2) knowingly and willfully employs for service or uses in any capacity as
an airman to operate an aircraft in air transportation an individual who
does not have an airman's certificate authorizing the individual to serve in
that capacity.

(b) Controlled Substance Criminal Penalty.-
(1) Controlled substances defined.- In this subsection, the term "controlled
substance" has the meaning given that term in section 102 of the
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21 U.S.C. 802).
(2) Criminal penalty.- An individual violating subsection (a) shall be fined
under title 18 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both, if the
violation is related to transporting a controlled substance by aircraft or
aiding or facilitating a controlled substance violation and that
transporting, aiding, or facilitating-
(A) is punishable by death or imprisonment of more than 1 year under a
Federal or State law; or
(B) is related to an act punishable by death or imprisonment for more than 1
year under a Federal or State law related to a controlled substance (except
a law related to simple possession (as that term is used in section
46306(c)) of a controlled substance).
(3) Terms of imprisonment.- A term of imprisonment imposed under paragraph
(2) shall be served in addition to, and not concurrently with, any other
term of imprisonment imposed on the individual subject to the imprisonment.