Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 3 — Filled Milk
§ 63. Penalties; acts of agents deemed acts of principals
Statutory text
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both. When construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of any person acting for or employed by any individual, partnership, corporation, or association, within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case be deemed the act, omission, or failure, of such individual, partnership, corporation, or association, as well as of such person.
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. 67–262 § 3 · 42 Stat. 813
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 63
(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 3, 42 Stat. 1487.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 3, 42 Stat. 1487.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
The original text of this section contained a further provision that no penalty should be enforced for any violation occurring within 30 days after act became law and was omitted as temporary and obsolete.
Credits
(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 3, 42 Stat. 1487.)