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[CITE: 21USC63]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                         CHAPTER 3--FILLED MILK
 
Sec. 63. Penalties; acts of agents deemed acts of principals

    Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall upon 
conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or 
imprisonment of not more than one year, or both. When construing and 
enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure 
of any person acting for or employed by any individual, partnership, 
corporation, or association, within the scope of his employment or 
office, shall in every case be deemed the act, omission, or failure, of 
such individual, partnership, corporation, or association, as well as of 
such person.

(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, Sec. 3, 42 Stat. 1487.)

                          Codification

    The original text of this section contained a further provision that 
no penalty should be enforced for any violation occurring within 30 days 
after act Mar. 4, 1923 became law and was omitted as temporary and 
obsolete.
