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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 14 — Regulation of Whaling

§ 916e. Failure to keep returns, records, reports

Statutory text

Any person who fails to make, keep, or furnish any catch return, statistical record, or any report that may be required by the convention, or by any regulation of the Commission, or by this subchapter, or by a regulation of the Secretary of Commerce, or any person who furnishes a false return, record, or report, upon conviction, shall be subject to such fine as may be imposed by the court not to exceed $500, and shall in addition be prohibited from whaling, processing, or possessing whales and whale products from the date of conviction until such time as any delinquent return, record, or report shall have been submitted or any false return, record, or report shall have been replaced by a duly certified correct and true return, record, or report to the satisfaction of the court. The penalties imposed by section 916f of this title shall not be invoked for failure to comply with requirements respecting returns, records, and reports.

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. 81–653 § 7 · 64 Stat. 421

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 916e

    Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, § 7, 64 Stat. 423

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, § 7, 64 Stat. 423

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. Any person who fails to make,, keep, or furnish any catch Penalties. return, statistical record, or any report that may be required by the convention, or by any regulation of the Commission, or by this Act, or by a regulation of the Secretary of the Interior, or any person who furnishes a false return, record, or report, upon conviction, shall be subject to such fine as may be imposed by the court not to exceed $500, and shall in addition be prohibited from whaling, processing, or possessing whales and whale products from the date of conviction until such time as any delinquent return, record, or report shall have been submitted or any false return, record, or report shall have been replaced by a duly certified correct and true return, record, or report to the satisfaction of the court. The penalties imposed by section 8 of this Act shall not be invoked for failure to comply with requirements respecting returns, records, and reports.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, see note set out under section 916 of this title.

Credits

1950–1970 · 2 acts
  1. 1950Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, § 7, 64 Stat. 423
  2. 19701970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.
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(Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, § 7, 64 Stat. 423; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

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