§ 1596. — Penalties.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC1596]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 1596. Penalties
(a) Any person who knowingly, or as a result either of gross
negligence or of a failure to make a reasonable effort to inform himself
of the pertinent facts, violates any provision of this chapter or the
rules and regulations made and promulgated thereunder shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine
of not more than $1,000, for the first offense, and upon conviction for
each subsequent offense not more than $2,000.
(b) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or the
rules and regulations made and promulgated thereunder shall forfeit to
the United States a sum, not less than $25 or more than $500, for each
such violation, which forfeiture shall be recoverable in a civil suit
brought in the name of the United States.
(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, Sec. 406, 53 Stat. 1286; July 9, 1956,
ch. 520, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 508.)
Amendments
1956--Act July 9, 1956, designated existing provisions as subsec.
(a), inserted ``knowingly or as a result either of gross negligence or
of a failure to make a reasonable effort to inform himself of the
pertinent facts,'' and added subsec. (b).
Effective Date of 1956 Amendment
Section 4 of act July 9, 1956, provided that: ``The amendments made
by this Act [amending sections 1574, 1596, and 1602 of this title] shall
be applicable only with respect to violations occurring after the
enactment of this Act [July 9, 1956].''
Effective Date
See section 1610 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 1602 of this title.
