Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 1 — Adulterated or Misbranded Foods or Drugs
§ 17. Penalty for sale or introduction of falsely labeled dairy or food products; venue
Statutory text
If any person or persons violate the provisions of section 16 of this title, either in person or through another, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $2,000. The jurisdiction for the prosecution of said misdemeanor shall be within the district of the United States court in which it is committed.
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. 57–1357 § 2 · 32 Stat. 632
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 17
(July 1, 1902, ch. 1357, § 2, 32 Stat. 632.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 1, 1902, ch. 1357, § 2, 32 Stat. 632.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That if any person or persons violate the provisions of this Act, either in person or through another, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars; and that the jurisdiction for the prosecution of said misdemeanor shall be within the district of the United States court in which it is committed.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(July 1, 1902, ch. 1357, § 2, 32 Stat. 632.)