# Adjustments to Civil Monetary Penalty Amounts
> **US Securities and Exchange Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2001-02-02 · 66 FR 8761
## Document
- **Document number:** 01-2846
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Securities and Exchange Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 66 FR 8761
- **CFR reference:** 17 CFR 201
- **Publication date:** 2001-02-02
- **Docket:** Release Nos. 33-7946
## Abstract

This rule implements the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, which requires that the Commission adopt a regulation adjusting for inflation the maximum amount of civil monetary penalties under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/02/02/01-2846/adjustments-to-civil-monetary-penalty-amounts)
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