Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 1 — Adulterated or Misbranded Foods or Drugs
§ 23. Penalties
Statutory text
Any person, firm or corporation, or association who shall knowingly pack or cause to be packed apples in barrels or who shall knowingly sell or offer for sale such barrels in violation of the provisions of sections 20 to 23 of this title shall be liable to a penalty of $1 and costs for each such barrel so sold or offered for sale, to be recovered at the suit of the United States in any court of the United States having jurisdiction.
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. 62–273 § 6 · 37 Stat. 250
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 23
(Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, § 6, 37 Stat. 251.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, § 6, 37 Stat. 251.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. That any person, firm or corporation, or association who Penalty for violations. shall knowingly pack or cause to be packed apples in barrels or who shall knowingly sell or offer for sale such barrels in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of one dollar and costs for each such barrel so sold or offered for sale, to be recovered at the suit of the United States in any court of the United States having jurisdiction.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is also set out as section 233 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
Credits
(Aug. 3, 1912, ch. 273, § 6, 37 Stat. 251.)