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7 U.S.C. § 503 — Reports; necessity; by whom made; penalties

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7 U.S.C. § 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section501&num=0&edition=prelim), 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.

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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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section501&num=0&edition=prelim), 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.

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7 U.S.C. § 501 — Collection and publication; facts required; deteriorated tobacco

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to collect and publish statistics of the quantity of leaf tobacco in all forms in the United States and Puerto Rico, owned by or in the possession of dealers, manufacturers, quasi-manufacturers, growers’ cooperative associations, warehousemen, brokers, holders, or owners, other than the original growers of tobacco. The statistics shall show the quantity of tobacco in such detail as to types, groups of grades, and such other subdivisions as to quality, color, and/or grade for particular types, as the Secretary of Agriculture shall deem to be practical and necessary for the purposes of this chapter, shall be summarized as of January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year, and an annual report on tobacco statistics shall be issued: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall not be required to collect statistics of leaf tobacco from any manufacturer of tobacco who, in the first three quarters of the preceding calendar year, according to the returns of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue or the record of the Treasurer of Puerto Rico, manufactured less than thirty-five thousand pounds of tobacco, or from any manufacturer of cigars who, during the first three quarters of the preceding calendar year, manufactured less than one hundred and eighty-five thousand cigars, or from any manufacturer of cigarettes who, during the first three quarters of the preceding year, manufactured less than seven hundred and fifty thousand cigarettes: And provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture may omit the collection of statistics from any dealer, manufacturer, growers’ cooperative association, warehouseman, broker, holder, or owner who does not own and/or have in stock, in the aggregate, fifty thousand pounds or m

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7 U.S.C. § 503 — Reports; necessity; by whom made; pen-

Page 433 TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE § 503 § 499t. Omitted Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section, act June 10, 1930, ch. 436, § 20, as added Aug. 22, 1988, Pub. L. 100–414, § 2, 102 Stat. 1102, established Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Industry Ad- visory Committee, provided for its membership, com- pensation, etc., directed advisory committee to review Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act program and to make findings and recommendations to Congress and Secretary of Agriculture with respect to future oper- ations of program, with an interim report not later than Sept. 30, 1989, and a final report not later than May 1, 1990, containing results of its review and rec- ommendations, and provided that advisory committee cease to exist on date of its final report. CHAPTER 21—TOBACCO STATISTICS Sec. 501. Collection and publication; facts required; de- teriorated tobacco. 502. Standards for classification; returns and blanks. 503. Reports; necessity; by whom made; penalties. 504. ‘‘Person’’ defined. 505. Access to internal-revenue records. 506. Returns under oath; administration. 507. Limitation on use of statistical information. 508. Separability. 509. Repealed. § 501. Collection and publication; facts required; deteriorated tobacco The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to collect and publish statistics of the quantity of leaf tobacco in all forms in the United States and Puerto Rico, owned by or in the possession of dealers, manufacturers, quasi- manufacturers, growers’ cooperative associa- tions, warehousemen, brokers, holders, or own- ers, other than the original growers of tobacco. The statistics shall show the quantity of to- bacco in such detail as to types, groups of grades, and such other subdivisions as to q

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