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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 8 — Falsely Stamped Gold or Silver or Goods Manufactured Therefrom

§ 293. Penalty for infraction

Statutory text

Every person, partnership, association, or corporation violating the provisions of sections 291 to 293 of this title, and every officer, director, or managing agent of such partnership, association, or corporation having knowledge of such violation and directly participating in such violation or consenting thereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, be punished with a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 58–720 § 2 · 33 Stat. 732

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 293

    (Feb. 21, 1905, ch. 720, § 2, 33 Stat. 732.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 21, 1905, ch. 720, § 2, 33 Stat. 732.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That every person, partnership, association, or corporation violating the provisions of this Act, and every officer, director, or managing agent of such partnership, association, or corporation having knowledge of such violation and directly participating in such violation or consenting thereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, be punished with a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Feb. 21, 1905, ch. 720, § 2, 33 Stat. 732.)

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