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13 U.S.C. § 241 — Evidence
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When any request for information, made by the Secretary or other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, is made by registered or certified mail or telegram, the return receipt therefor or other written receipt thereof shall be prima facie evidence of an official request in any prosecution under such section.
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When any request for information, made by the Secretary or other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, is made by registered or certified mail or telegram, the return receipt therefor or other written receipt thereof shall be prima facie evidence of an official request in any prosecution under such section.
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The Secretary shall perform the functions and duties imposed upon him by this title, may issue such rules and regulations as he deems necessary to carry out such functions and duties, and may delegate the performance of such functions and duties and the authority to issue such rules and regulations to such officers and employees of the Department of Commerce as he may designate.
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As used in this title, unless the context requires another meaning or unless it is otherwise provided—
(1) “Bureau” means the Bureau of the Census;
(2) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Commerce; and
(3) “respondent” includes a corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, proprietorship, society, joint stock company, individual, or other organization or entity which reported information, or on behalf of which information was reported, in response to a questionnaire, inquiry, or other request of the Bureau.
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Whoever, being the owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant to the person in charge, of any company, business, institution, establishment, religious body, or organization of any nature whatsoever, neglects or refuses, when requested by the Secretary or other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, to answer completely and correctly to the best of his knowledge all questions relating to his company, business, institution, establishment, religious body, or other organization, or to records or statistics in his official custody, contained on any census or other schedule or questionnaire prepared and submitted to him under the authority of this title, shall be fined not more than $500; and if he willfully gives a false answer to any such question, he shall be fined not more than $10,000.
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TITLE 13—CENSUS
§ 225
§ 225. Applicability of penal provisions in certain
cases
(a) In connection with any survey conducted
by the Secretary or other authorized officer or
employee of the Department of Commerce or bu-
reau or agency thereof pursuant to subchapter
IV of chapter 5 of this title, the provisions of
sections 221, 222, 223 and 224 of this title shall
apply—
(1) with respect to the answering of ques-
tions and furnishing of information, only to
such inquiries as are within the scope of the
schedules and questionnaires and of the type
and character heretofore used in connection
with the taking of complete censuses under
subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title,
or in connection with any censuses hereafter
taken pursuant to such subchapters;
(2) only after publication of a determination
with reasons therefor certified by the Sec-
retary, or by some other authorized officer or
employee of the Department of Commerce or
bureau or agency thereof with the approval of
the Secretary, that the information called for
is needed to aid or permit the efficient per-
formance of essential governmental functions
or services, or has significant application to
the needs of the public, business, or industry
and is not publicly available from nongovern-
mental or other governmental sources;
(3) in the case of any new survey, only after
public notice, given by the Secretary or other
authorized officer or employee of the Depart-
ment of Commerce or bureau or agency there-
of at least thirty days in advance of requesting
a return, that such survey is under consider-
ation.
(b) The provisions for imprisonment provided
by section 222 of this title shall not apply in con-
nection with any survey conducted pursuant to
subchapter II of chapter 3
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