# Adjustments to Civil Monetary Penalty Amounts
> **US Securities and Exchange Commission** · Interim final rule; request for comment. · Published 2016-07-01 · Effective 2016-08-01 · 81 FR 43042
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-15541
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Securities and Exchange Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 43042
- **CFR reference:** 17 CFR 201
- **Publication date:** 2016-07-01
- **Effective date:** 2016-08-01
- **Docket:** Release Nos. 33-10104
## Abstract

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") is adopting an interim final rule to implement the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015, which amended the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as previously amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996. This interim final rule adjusts 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, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and certain penalties under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/07/01/2016-15541/adjustments-to-civil-monetary-penalty-amounts)
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