1.   But in recent years, Mexican authorities have stepped up enforcement, charging violators with more serious smuggling charges.

2.   First offenses are misdemeanors, but habitual violators can be charged with felonies by the courts.

3.   The Berkeley City Council amended the ordinance in July to allow prosecutors to charge violators with either an infraction or a misdemeanor.

4.   The Ohio violators were instead charged with forgery, cheating in athletic contests, theft by deception and even contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

5.   Should they be neglected or violated in the future, there would not be any legal means available to charge the violators, the observers agreed.

6.   Such violators can be charged with perjury.

7.   Violators can be charged with inciting racial hatred, but it is unclear how such laws can be enforced in the free-for-all atmosphere of cyberspace.

8.   Violators could be charged under federal law with felony exportation of a firearm without a permit, ATF spokesman Larry Bettendorf told The Tribune.

9.   Violators can be charged with inciting racial hatred, but it is unclear yet how such laws can be enforced in cyberspace.