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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 4 — Animals, Meats, and Meat and Dairy Products

§ 145. Penalties

Statutory text

Any person who knowingly violates any provision of this subchapter shall, in addition to all other penalties prescribed by law, be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, 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.

  1. Pub. L. 69–155 § 5 · 44 Stat. 300

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 145

    (Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 5, 44 Stat. 1103.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 5, 44 Stat. 1103.)

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Credits

(Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 5, 44 Stat. 1103.)

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