Civil penalty for violation of federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011; generally

Where the commission has exercised authority under the provisions of the federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011, 49 U.S.C. § 60101, et seq., and amendments thereto, to regulate gas safety in the state of Wyoming, any person or persons as defined in that act who hereafter violate any provision of that act as made applicable to jurisdictional activities within the state of Wyoming may be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for violation for each day that the violation persists. However, the maximum civil penalty shall not exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) for any related series of violations.#