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[CITE: 7USC491]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
        CHAPTER 20--DUMPING OR DESTRUCTION OF INTERSTATE PRODUCE
 
Sec. 491. Destruction or dumping of farm produce received in 
        interstate commerce by commission merchants, etc.; penalty
        
    After June 30, 1927, any person, firm, association, or corporation 
receiving any fruits, vegetables, melons, dairy, or poultry products or 
any perishable farm products of any kind or character, hereinafter 
referred to as produce, in interstate commerce, or in the District of 
Columbia, for or on behalf of another, who without good and sufficient 
cause therefor shall destroy or abandon, discard as refuse or dump any 
produce directly or indirectly or through collusion with any person, or 
who shall knowingly and with intent to defraud make any false report or 
statement to the person, firm, association, or corporation from whom any 
produce was received, concerning the handling, condition, quality, 
quantity, sale, or disposition thereof or who shall knowingly and with 
intent to defraud fail truly and correctly to account therefor shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than $100 and not more than $3,000, or by imprisonment for a 
period of not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the 
court.

(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 309, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 1355.)

                          Codification

    Section constitutes part of section 1 of act Mar. 3, 1927. Remainder 
of section 1 was classified to section 492 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 499c, 499d, 499n of this 
title.
