Volume 78 · 928
Public Law 88–585
To establish penalties for misuse of feed made available for relieving distress or preservation and maintenance of foundation herds.
Approved September 11, 1964
Statutory text
AN ACT
To establish penalties for misuse of feed made available for relieving distress or preservation and maintenance of foundation herds.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 407 of
Misuse of feed.
Penalties.
the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is hereby amended (1) by changing in the fifth sentence the words “not less than 75 per centum of the current support price for such feed (or a comparable price if there is no current support price)” to read “not less than 75 per centum of the current basic county support rate for such feed including the value of any applicable price support payment in kind (or a comparable price it there is no current basic county support, rate)”; (2) by inserting in the fifth sentence “including the Virgin Islands” after “The United States” wherever it appears; (3) by adding at the end of the fifth sentence the following: “: Provided, That the Secretary may provide for the furnishing of feed or mixed feed, in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, to such persons by feed dealers under an arrangement whereby the feed grains (or other feed being sold by the Corporation) in the feed so furnished would be replaced with feed owned or controlled by the Corporation and sold to such persons at a price determined as provided above.”; and (4) by adding at the end of the sixth sentence “or other area”.
Sec. 2.
The Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended by
adding at the end of title IV the following:
“Sec. 421.
Any person who disposes of any feed which has been made available to him under section 407 of this Act for use in relieving distress or for preservation and maintenance of foundation herds, other than as authorized by the Secretary, shall be subject to a penalty equal to the market value of the feed involved, to be recovered by the Secretary in a civil suit brought for that purpose, and in addition shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year.”
Sec. 3.
The Act of September 21, 1959 (73 Stat. 574), is amended
(1) by changing the words “at current support prices,” to read “at not less than the current basic county support rate including the value of any applicable price support payment in kind (or a comparable price if there is no current basic county support rate),” (2) by adding at the end of section 2, the following: “ ‘State’ means any State in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.”; (3) by adding at the end of section 3 the following: “The Secretary may provide for the furnishing of feed grains or mixed feed, in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, to any such person by a feed dealer under an arrangement whereby feed grains in the feed so furnished would be replaced with feed grains owned or controlled by the Corporation and sold to such person at a price determined as provided in section 1.”; and (4) by inserting in section 4 after the word “purchased” the words “or furnished”.
Approved September 11, 1964.