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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 53 — Cotton Research and Promotion

§ 2112. Enforcement of orders; penalty for willful violation

Statutory text

(a)

The several district courts of the United States are vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce, and to prevent and restrain any person from violating any order or regulation made or issued pursuant to this chapter.

(b)

Any handler who willfully violates any provision of any order issued by the Secretary under this chapter, or who willfully fails or refuses to collect or remit any assessment or fee duly required of him thereunder, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $1,000 for each such offense which shall accrue to the United States and may be recovered in a civil suit brought by the United States.

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. Pub. L. 89–502 § 13 · 80 Stat. 279

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2112

    (Pub. L. 89–502, § 13, July 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 284.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 89–502, § 13, July 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 284.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 13. enforcement (a) The several district courts of the United States are vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce, and to prevent and restrain any person from violating any order or regulation made or issued pursuant to this Act. (b) Any handler who willfully violates any provision of any order issued by the Secretary under this Act, or who willfully fails or refuses to collect or remit any assessment or fee duly required of him thereunder, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $1,000 for each such offense which shall accrue to the United States and may be recovered in a civil suit brought by the United States.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 89–502, § 13, , 80 Stat. 284.)

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