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| LegalText | 7 U.S.C. § 1596 | Penalties | us | united_states_code | code_section | 7 | AGRICULTURE | 37 | SEEDS | 1596 | 7 U.S.C. § 1596 | current | 119-100 | 2026-06-26 | official | https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc07@119-100.zip | /us/usc/t7/s1596 | data/legal/raw/us/code/title-07/usc07.xml | 26cc04dcf4a4d6d815144e8d68d92206a2e8af19da678ba1497e173fa1e51c6b | 50edab1679a711653797362c0aeb8f2273303fe473fb7fa16df1ee76bdd6e984 | bc378c431492d40160fe6ef3eb3a694f5a407b224ad95420e0803904da8e404d | 2026-07-04 | official |
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7 U.S.C. § 1596 - Penalties
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(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, § 406, 53 Stat. 1286; July 9, 1956, ch. 520, § 1, 70 Stat. 508.)
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Editorial Notes
Amendments1956—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).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1956 AmendmentAct July 9, 1956, ch. 520, § 4, 70 Stat. 508, 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 DateSee section 1610 of this title.