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[CITE: 21USC122]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 122. Offenses; penalty

    Any person, company, or corporation knowingly violating the 
provisions of this Act or the orders or regulations made in pursuance 
thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be 
punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than 
five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than one year, or by 
both such fine and imprisonment. Any person, company, or corporation 
violating such provisions, orders, or regulations may be assessed a 
civil penalty by the Secretary of Agriculture of not more than one 
thousand dollars. The Secretary may issue an order assessing such civil 
penalty only after notice and an opportunity for an agency hearing on 
the record. Such order shall be treated as a final order reviewable 
under chapter 158 of title 28. The validity of such order may not be 
reviewed in an action to collect such civil penalty.

(Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, Sec. 3, 32 Stat. 792; Pub. L. 97-461, Sec. 6, 
Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2525.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, 32 
Stat. 791, as amended, which enacted sections 111, 121, and 122 of this 
title and amended sections 112, 113, and 120 of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.


                               Amendments

    1983--Pub. L. 97-461 substituted ``five thousand dollars'' for ``one 
thousand dollars'' and inserted provisions relating to a civil penalty.


                 Extension of Provisions to Live Poultry

    Act Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59, extended the penalties, 
terms, and provisions of this section to live poultry.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 136a of this title; title 16 
section 1540.
