§ 916e. — Failure to keep returns, records, reports.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC916e]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 14--REGULATION OF WHALING
SUBCHAPTER II--WHALING CONVENTION ACT
Sec. 916e. Failure to keep returns, records, reports
Any person who fails to make, keep, or furnish any catch return,
statistical record, or any report that may be required by the
convention, or by any regulation of the Commission, or by this
subchapter, or by a regulation of the Secretary of Commerce, or any
person who furnishes a false return, record, or report, upon conviction,
shall be subject to such fine as may be imposed by the court not to
exceed $500, and shall in addition be prohibited from whaling,
processing, or possessing whales and whale products from the date of
conviction until such time as any delinquent return, record, or report
shall have been submitted or any false return, record, or report shall
have been replaced by a duly certified correct and true return, record,
or report to the satisfaction of the court. The penalties imposed by
section 916f of this title shall not be invoked for failure to comply
with requirements respecting returns, records, and reports.
(Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, Sec. 7, 64 Stat. 423; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4,
eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the
Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, see note set out under section
916 of this title.
