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[CITE: 45USC359]

 
                           TITLE 45--RAILROADS
 
               CHAPTER 11--RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
 
Sec. 359. Penalties


(a) Failure to make report or furnish information; false or fraudulent 
        statement or claim

    Any officer or agent of an employer, or any employee representative, 
or any employee acting in his own behalf, or any person whether or not 
of the character hereinbefore defined, who shall willfully fail or 
refuse to make any report or furnish any information required by the 
Board in the administration of this chapter, or who shall knowingly make 
or aid in making or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statement 
or report when a statement or report is required to be made for the 
purposes of this chapter, or who shall knowingly make or aid in making 
or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statement or claim for the 
purpose of causing benefits or other payment to be made or not to be 
made under this chapter, shall be punished by a fine of not more than 
$10,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

(b) Agreement by employee to bear employer's contribution

    Any agreement by an employee to pay all or any portion of the 
contribution required of his employer under this chapter shall be void, 
and it shall be unlawful for any employer, or officer or agent of an 
employer, to make, require, or permit any employee to bear all or any 
portion of such contribution. Any employer, or officer or agent of an 
employer, who violates any provision of this subsection shall be 
punished for each such violation by a fine of not more than $10,000 or 
by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

(c) Punishments not specifically provided

    Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, the 
punishment for which is not otherwise provided, shall be punished for 
each such violation by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment 
not exceeding one year, or both.

(d) Payment and disposition of fines or penalties

    All fines and penalties imposed by a court pursuant to this chapter 
shall be paid to the court and be remitted from time to time by order of 
the judge to the Treasury of the United States to be credited to the 
account.

(June 25, 1938, ch. 680, Sec. 9, 52 Stat. 1103.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 354 of this title.
