15 U.S.C. § 233 — Penalty for violations

submitted 114 years ago by ch. 273 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 77 words · no verdicts yet

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Anyone who knowingly packs apples in mismarked barrels, or knowingly sells or offers such barrels for sale in violation of this Act, owes a $1 penalty plus costs for each barrel. The United States can sue to collect that penalty in any U.S. court with jurisdiction.

This section is a single provision with no subsections. Any person, firm, corporation, or association who knowingly packs, or has someone else pack, apples into barrels that violate this Act, or who knowingly sells or offers to sell such barrels, must pay a penalty of $1 plus costs for each barrel sold or offered for sale. The United States can recover that penalty by suing in any U.S. court that has jurisdiction over the case.

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Any person, firm, or corporation, or association who shall knowingly pack or cause to be packed apples in barrels, or who shall knowingly sell or offer for sale such barrels in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of $1 and costs for each such barrel so sold or offered for sale, to be recovered at the suit of the United States in any court of the United States having jurisdiction.

Source credit: (Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, § 6, 37 Stat. 251.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1912Enacted · Act of Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273 · 37 Stat. 251

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