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[CITE: 7USC503]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                     CHAPTER 21--TOBACCO STATISTICS
 
Sec. 503. Reports; necessity; by whom made; penalties

    It shall be the duty of every dealer, manufacturer, quasi-
manufacturer, growers' cooperative association, warehouseman, broker, 
holder, or owner, other than the original grower, except such persons as 
are excluded by the proviso to section 501 of this title, to furnish 
within fifteen days after January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of 
each year, completely and correctly, to the best of his knowledge, a 
report of the quantity of leaf tobacco on hand, segregated in accordance 
with the blanks furnished by the Secretary of Agriculture. Any person, 
firm, association, or corporation required by this chapter to furnish a 
report, and any officer, agent, or employee thereof who shall refuse or 
willfully neglect to furnish any of the information required by this 
chapter, or shall willfully give answers that are false or misleading, 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be 
fined not less than $300 or more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more 
than one year, or both.

(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, Sec. 3, 45 Stat. 1080; July 14, 1932, ch. 480, 
Sec. 2, 47 Stat. 663.)


                               Amendments

    1932--Act July 14, 1932, made quasi-manufacturers subject to 
section.
