{"identifier":"/us/usc/t7/s1596","title":7,"num":"\u00a7\u202f1596.","heading":"Penalties","text":"\u00a7\u202f1596.\nPenalties\n(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.\n(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.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t7/s1596.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t7/s1596","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f1596."},{"t":"heading","text":"Penalties"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t7/s1596/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t7/s1596/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}