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[CITE: 27USC207]

 
                     TITLE 27--INTOXICATING LIQUORS
 
              CHAPTER 8--FEDERAL ALCOHOL ADMINISTRATION ACT
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--FEDERAL ALCOHOL ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 207. Penalties; jurisdiction; compromise of liability

    The District Courts of the United States, and the United States 
court for any Territory, of the District where the offense is committed 
or threatened or of which the offender is an inhabitant or has his 
principal place of business, are vested with jurisdiction of any suit 
brought by the Attorney General in the name of the United States, to 
prevent and restrain violations of any of the provisions of this 
subchapter. Any person violating any of the provisions of section 203 or 
205 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction 
thereof be fined not more than $1,000 for each offense. The Secretary of 
the Treasury is authorized, with respect to any violation of this 
subchapter, to compromise the liability arising with respect to such 
violation (1) upon payment of a sum not in excess of $500 for each 
offense, to be collected by the Secretary and to be paid into the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, and (2) in case of repetitious 
violations and in order to avoid multiplicity of criminal proceedings, 
upon agreement to a stipulation, that the United States may, on its own 
motion upon five days' notice to the violator, cause a consent decree to 
be entered by any court of competent jurisdiction enjoining the 
repetition of such violation.

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, Sec. 107, formerly Sec. 7, 49 Stat. 
985; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, 
Sec. 2, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232; 1940 Reorg. Plan 
No. IV, Sec. 2, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1234; June 25, 
1948, ch. 646, Sec. 32(b), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, 
Sec. 127, 63 Stat. 107; renumbered title I, Sec. 107, and amended Pub. 
L. 100-690, title VIII, Sec. 8001(a)(1), (2), (b)(2), (4), Nov. 18, 
1988, 102 Stat. 4517, 4521.)

                          Codification

    As originally enacted this section contained a reference to the 
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Act June 25, 1936, 
substituted ``the district court of the United States for the District 
of Columbia'' for ``the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia'', and 
act June 25, 1948, as amended by act May 24, 1949, substituted ``United 
States District Court for the District of Columbia'' for ``district 
court of the United States for the District of Columbia''. However, the 
words ``United States District Court for the District of Columbia'' have 
been deleted entirely as superfluous in view of section 132(a) of Title 
28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, which states that ``There shall be 
in each judicial district a district court which shall be a court of 
record known as the United States District Court for the district'', and 
section 88 of Title 28 which states that ``the District of Columbia 
constitutes one judicial district''.


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-690, Sec. 8001(b)(2), substituted ``subchapter'' 
for ``chapter'' in two places.
    Pub. L. 100-690, Sec. 8001(b)(4), made technical amendment to 
references to sections 203 and 205 of this title to reflect renumbering 
of corresponding sections of original act.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized'' and ``Secretary'' 
were substituted for ``Subject to the approval of the Attorney General, 
the Administrator is authorized'' and ``Administrator'', meaning the 
Administrator of the Federal Alcohol Administration, respectively, 
pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. IV of 1940, set out in the Appendix to Title 
5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred the function 
of approving compromises made in accordance with this section from the 
Attorney General to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be exercised by 
him or under his direction and supervision by officer in the Department 
of the Treasury designated by him, and Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, set 
out in the Appendix to Title V, which transferred the functions of the 
Administrator of the Federal Alcohol Administration to the Secretary of 
the Treasury. Reorg. Plan No. IV of 1940, in addition, contained the 
following proviso: ``Provided, That exclusive jurisdiction to compromise 
cases arising under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act which are 
pending before the courts or which have been or may hereafter be 
referred to the Department of Justice for action shall be vested in the 
Attorney General, and may be exercised by him or by any officer in the 
Department of Justice designated by him.'' See also note set out under 
section 201 of this title.
