7 U.S.C. § 953 — Reports; by whom made; penalties
submitted 90 years ago by ch. 745 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 167 words · no verdicts yet
This section requires specified peanut businesses and owners to submit complete and correct reports about peanuts and peanut oil. It makes refusing to provide required reports or information, or willfully giving false and misleading answers, a misdemeanor with specified penalties.
Every warehouseman, broker, cleaner, sheller, dealer, growers’ cooperative association, crusher, salter, peanut-products manufacturer, and owner other than the original producer of peanuts must provide reports that are complete and correct to the best of that person’s knowledge. The reports must state the amounts of peanuts and peanut oil received, processed, shipped, and owned or possessed. When the Secretary* requests them, the reports must be provided by the deadline and on the forms the Secretary gives. A person* required by this chapter or its regulations to provide reports or information, and any officer, agent, or employee of that person, who refuses to provide those reports or information or willfully gives false and misleading answers commits a misdemeanor. On conviction, the person may be fined from $300 to $1,000, imprisoned for up to one year, or both.
It shall be the duty of each warehouseman, broker, cleaner, sheller, dealer, growers’ cooperative association, crusher, salter, manufacturer of peanut products, and owner other than the original producer of peanuts to furnish reports, complete and correct to the best of his knowledge, on the quantity of peanuts and peanut oil received, processed, shipped, and owned by him or in his possession. Such reports, when and as requested by the Secretary*, shall be furnished within the time prescribed and in accordance with forms provided by him for the purpose. Any person* required by this chapter, or the regulations promulgated thereunder, to furnish reports or information, and any officer, agent, or employee thereof, who shall refuse to give such reports or information or shall willfully give answers that are false and misleading, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $300 nor more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or be subject to both such fine and imprisonment.
Source credit: (June 24, 1936, ch. 745, § 3, 49 Stat. 1899; May 12, 1938, ch. 199, § 3, 52 Stat. 349; Pub. L. 85–105, § 3, July 17, 1957, 71 Stat. 306.)
- 1936Enacted · Act of June 24, 1936, ch. 745 · 49 Stat. 1899
- 1938Amended · Act of May 12, 1938, ch. 199 · 52 Stat. 349
- 1957Amended · Pub. L. 85-105 · 71 Stat. 306
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 745 on 1936-06-24.
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