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[CITE: 7USC1596]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1596. Penalties

    (a) 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.
    (b) 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, Sec. 406, 53 Stat. 1286; July 9, 1956, 
ch. 520, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 508.)


                               Amendments

    1956--Act July 9, 1956, designated existing provisions as subsec. 
(a), inserted ``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,'' and added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1956 Amendment

    Section 4 of act July 9, 1956, 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].''


                             Effective Date

    See section 1610 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1602 of this title.
