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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 46 — International Investment and Trade in Services Survey

§ 3105. Enforcement

Statutory text

(a)

Civil penalty for failure to furnish information

Whoever fails to furnish any information required under this chapter, whether required to be furnished in the form of a report or otherwise, or to comply with any rule, regulation, order, or instruction promulgated under this chapter, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $2,500, and not more than $25,000, in a proceeding brought under subsection (b) of this section.

(b)

Civil action for failure to furnish information

Whenever it appears that any person has failed to furnish any information required under this chapter, whether required to be furnished in the form of a report or otherwise, or has failed to comply with any rule, regulation, order, or instruction promulgated under this chapter, a civil action may be brought in an appropriate district court of the United States, or the appropriate United States court of any territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and such court may enter a restraining order or a permanent or temporary injunction commanding such person to furnish such information or to comply with such rule, regulation, order, or instruction, as the case may be, or impose the civil penalty provided in subsection (a) of this section, or both.

(c)

Criminal penalty for failure to submit information

Whoever willfully fails to submit any information required under this chapter, whether required to be furnished in the form of a report or otherwise, or willfully violates any rule, regulation, order, or instruction promulgated under this chapter, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $10,000 and, if an individual, may be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, and any officer, director, employee, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation, upon conviction, may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both.

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. International Investment Survey Act of 1976

    Pub. L. 94–472 § 6 · 90 Stat. 2059

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3105

    Pub. L. 94–472, § 6, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2063

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 94–472, § 6, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2063

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. enforcement (a) Whoever fails to furnish any information required under Failure to furnish information. Penalties. 22 USC 3105. this Act, whether required to be furnished in the form of a report or otherwise, or to comply with any rule, regulation, order, or instruction promulgated under this Act, may be subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $10,000 in a proceeding brought under subsection (b) of this section. (b) Whenever it appears that any person has failed to furnish any information required under this Act, whether required to be furnished in the form of a report or otherwise, or has failed to comply with any rule, regulation, order, or instinct ion promulgated under this Act, a civil action may be brought in an appropriate district court of the United States, or the appropriate United States court of any territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and such court may enter a restraining order or a permanent or temporary injunction commanding such person to furnish such information or to comply with such rule, regulation, order, or instruction, as the case may be or impose the civil penalty provided in subsection (a) of this section, or both. (c) Whoever willfully fails to submit any information required Failure to submit information. Penalty. under this Act. whether required to be furnished in the form of a report or otherwise, or willfully violates any rule, regulation, order, or instruction promulgated under this Art. upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $10,000 and, if an individual, may be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, and any officer, director, employee, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation, upon conviction, may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both.

  2. Foreign Direct Investment and International Financial Data Improvements Act of 1990

    Pub. L. 101–533 § 7(b) · 104 Stat. 2344

    Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 3105(a)

    Pub. L. 101–533 substituted “shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $2,500, and not more than $25,000,” for “may be subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $10,000”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–533 substituted “shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $2,500, and not more than $25,000,” for “may be subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $10,000”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (b) Civil Penalties.— Section 6(a) of the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3105(a)) is amended by striking “may be subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $10,000” and inserting “shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $2,500, and not more than $25,000,”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–533 substituted “shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $2,500, and not more than $25,000,” for “may be subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $10,000”.

Credits

1976–1990 · 2 acts
  1. 1976Pub. L. 94–472, § 6, , 90 Stat. 2063
  2. 1990Pub. L. 101–533, § 7(b), , 104 Stat. 2349.
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(Pub. L. 94–472, § 6, , 90 Stat. 2063; Pub. L. 101–533, § 7(b), , 104 Stat. 2349.)

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