Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 66 — Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure
§ 3502. Civil penalty
Statutory text
If the Secretary determines that a person—
has failed to submit a report in accordance with the provisions of section 3501 of this title, or
has knowingly submitted a report under section 3501 of this title—
which does not contain all the information required to be in such report, or
which contains information that is misleading or false,
such person shall be subject to a civil penalty imposed by the Secretary. The amount of any such civil penalty shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. Any such civil penalty shall be recoverable in a civil action brought by the Attorney General of the United States in an appropriate district court of the United States.
The amount of any civil penalty imposed by the Secretary under subsection (a) of this section shall be such amount as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to carry out the purposes of this chapter, except that such amount shall not exceed 25 percent of the fair market value, on the date of the assessment of such penalty, of the interest in agricultural land with respect to which such violation occurred.
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. 95–460 § 3 · 92 Stat. 1263
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 3502
(Pub. L. 95–460, § 3, Oct. 14, 1978, 92 Stat. 1265.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 95–460, § 3, Oct. 14, 1978, 92 Stat. 1265.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. (a) If the Secretary determines that a person— 7 USC 3502. (1) has failed to submit a report in accordance with the provisions of section 2, or (2) has knowingly submitted a report under section 2— (A) which does not contain all the information required to be in such report, or (B) which contains information that is misleading or false, such person shall be subject to a civil penalty imposed by the Secretary. The amount of any such civil penalty shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. Any such civil penalty shall be recoverable in a civil action brought by the Attorney General of the United States in an appropriate district court of the United States. (b) The amount of any civil penalty imposed by the Secretary under subsection (a) of this section shall be such amount as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act, except that such amount shall not exceed 25 percent of the fair market value, on the date of the assessment of such penalty, of the interest in agricultural land with respect to which such violation occurred.
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