Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 19 — Miscellaneous
§ 1004. Penalties
Statutory text
Whoever secures or attempts to secure the exemption from toll provided for in sections 1002 to 1004 of this title or an authorization referred to in section 1003 of this title, knowing that he is not entitled thereto, and whoever signs or issues any such authorization certifying to such right of exemption, knowing that such right does not exist, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment for not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 78–92 § 3 · 58 Stat. 116
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1004
(Mar. 14, 1944, ch. 92, § 3, 58 Stat. 116.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 14, 1944, ch. 92, § 3, 58 Stat. 116.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. Whoever secures or attempts to secure the exemption from toll provided for in this Act or an authorization referred to in section 2, knowing that he is not entitled thereto, and whoever signs or issues any such authorization certifying to such right of exemption, Penalty. knowing that such right does not exist, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment for not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Mar. 14, 1944, ch. 92, § 3, 58 Stat. 116.)