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13 U.S.C. § 224 — Failure to answer questions affecting companies, businesses, religious bodies, and other organizations; false answers
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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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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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### Statutory Notes
Section, act July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title VI, § 607, 63 Stat. 441, related to housing census. See [section 141 of Title 13](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title13-section141&num=0&edition=prelim), Census.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, acts June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 684; Oct. 30, 1984, Pub. L. 98–596, § 8, 98 Stat. 3138, classified offenses as a felony, misdemeanor, or petty offense.
#### Effective Date of Repeal
Repeal of section effective Nov. 1, 1987, and applicable only to offenses committed after the taking effect of such repeal, see section 235(a)(1) of Pub. L. 98–473, set out as an Effective Date note under [section 3551 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section3551&num=0&edition=prelim).
#### Short Title of 2026 Amendment
Pub. L. 119–73, § 1, Jan. 23, 2026, 139 Stat. 2003, provided that: “This Act [enacting sections 28 and 3771A of this title, amending [section 7102 of Title 22](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section7102&num=0&edition=prelim), Foreign Relations and Intercourse, and enacting provisions set out as notes under [section 28 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section28&num=0&edition=prelim) and [section 10110 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section10110&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement] may be cited as the ‘Trafficking Survivors Relief Act’.”
#### Short Title of 2024 Amendment
Pub. L. 118–78, § 1, July 30, 2024, 138 Stat. 1512, provided that: “This Act [enacting [section 1352 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1352&num=0&edition=prelim) and amending [section 201 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section201&num=0&edition=prelim)] may be cited as the ‘Foreign Extortion Prevention Technical Corrections Act’.”
Pub. L. 118–77, § 1, July
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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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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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Page 30
TITLE 13—CENSUS
§ 223
employees is unnecessary and redundant; and ‘‘Depart-
ment of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof’’ was
substituted for ‘‘Census Office’’, to conform with 1950
Reorganization Plan No. 5, §§ 1, 2, effective May 24, 1950,
15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263. See Revision Note to section
4 of this title.
Subsection (b) of section 1442 of title 42, U.S.C., 1952
ed., The Public Health and Welfare (which section has
been transferred in its entirety to this revised title),
made section 209 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., applicable
to the censuses of housing (subchapter II of chapter 5
of this revised title). However, the particular provisions
of such section 209 that have been carried into this re-
vised section, could not, by their terms, be relevant to
housing censuses, hence no reference is made in this
section to such censuses.
Words in section 209 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., ‘‘ei-
ther as to the number of persons resident in any dis-
trict or community, or in any other respect’’, were
omitted from the revised section as unnecessary and
superfluous.
Reference to the offense described as a ‘‘mis-
demeanor’’ was omitted as covered by section 1 of title
18, U.S.C., Crimes and Criminal Procedure, classifying
offenses; and words ‘‘and upon conviction thereof’’ were
omitted as surplusage.
Changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1957—Pub. L. 85–207 substituted ‘‘II, IV, or V’’ for ‘‘II
or IV’’.
§ 223. Refusal, by owners, proprietors, etc., to as-
sist census employees
Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, man-
ager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel,
apartment house, boarding or lodging house,
tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully
neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by
any other
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