Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Part D · Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
§ 855. Alternative fine
Statutory text
In lieu of a fine otherwise authorized by this part, a defendant who derives profits or other proceeds from an offense may be fined not more than twice the gross profits or other proceeds.
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.
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
Pub. L. 91–513 title II § 415 · 84 Stat. 1236
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 855
(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 415, as added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 2302, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2193.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 415, as added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 2302, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2193.)
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Credits
(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 415, as added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 2302, , 98 Stat. 2193.)