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title: "21 U.S.C. § 145"
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title_number: 21
title_name: "FOOD AND DRUGS"
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citation: "21 U.S.C. § 145"
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# 21 U.S.C. § 145 - Penalties

## Text

Any person who knowingly violates any provision of this subchapter shall, in addition to all other penalties prescribed by law, be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 5, 44 Stat. 1103.)