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7 U.S. Code § 1596 - Penalties | LII / Legal Information Institute
U.S. Code › Title 7 › Chapter 37 › Subchapter IV › § 1596 7 U.S. Code § 1596 - Penalties
Any person who knowingly, or as a result either of gross negligence or of a failure to make a reasonable effort to inform himself of the pertinent facts, violates any provision of this chapter or the rules and regulations made and promulgated thereunder shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not more than $1,000, for the first offense, and upon conviction for each subsequent offense not more than $2,000.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or the rules and regulations made and promulgated thereunder shall forfeit to the United States a sum, not less than $25 or more than $500, for each such violation, which forfeiture shall be recoverable in a civil suit brought in the name of the United States.
(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 406,53 Stat. 1286; July 9, 1956, ch. 520, § 1,70 Stat. 508.)
Act July 9, 1956, ch. 520, § 4,70 Stat. 508, provided that: “The amendments made by this Act [amending sections 1574, 1596, and 1602 of this title] shall be applicable only with respect to violations occurring after the enactment of this Act [July 9, 1956].”