§1918 — Title 19 Customs Duties | U.S. Code

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People who get adjustment assistance under sections 1913, 1914, or 1917 must keep clear records showing how much money they received and how they spent it, and any other records the Secretary of Commerce requires. The Secretary of Commerce and the Comptroller General may look at any books, papers, or records about that assistance to audit them. A firm cannot get help under those sections unless its owners, partners, or officers tell the Secretary the names of any lawyers, agents, or others they hired to speed up the application and state the fees paid or to be paid. For money given under section 1914, those owners, partners, or officers must also sign an agreement, binding them and the firm for 2 years after the aid is provided, not to hire, offer a job to, or hire for professional work anyone who, on the day the aid was given or within the previous year, had a job the Secretary finds involved decision-making about that aid.

Title 19, §1918

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(a)Each recipient of adjustment assistance under section 1913, 1914, or 1917 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, shall keep records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds, if any, of such adjustment assistance, and which will facilitate an effective audit. The recipient shall also keep such other records as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe.

(b)The Secretary of Commerce and the Comptroller General of the United States shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, and records of the recipient pertaining to adjustment assistance under section 1913, 1914, and 1917 1 of this title.

(c)No adjustment assistance shall be extended under section 1913, 1914, or 1917 1 of this title to any firm unless the owners, partners, or officers certify to the Secretary of Commerce—

(1)the names of any attorneys, agents, and other persons engaged by or on behalf of the firm for the purpose of expediting applications for such adjustment assistance, and

(2)the fees paid or to be paid to any such person.

(d)No financial assistance shall be provided to any firm under section 1914 1 of this title unless the owners, partners, or officers shall execute an agreement binding them and the firm for a period of 2 years after such financial assistance is provided, to refrain from employing, tendering any office or employment to, or retaining for professional services any person who, on the date such assistance or any part thereof was provided, or within one year prior thereto, shall have served as an officer, attorney, agent, or employee occupying a position or engaging in activities which the Secretary of Commerce shall have determined involve discretion with respect to the provision of such financial assistance.

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section 1913, 1914, and 1917 of this title, referred to in text, were repealed by Pub. L. 93–618, title VI, § 602(e), Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2072. section 1917 of this title, referred to in subsecs. (a) to (c), was in the original “section 317”, meaning section 317 of Pub. L. 87–794, which enacted section 1917 of this title and amended section 172(b), 6501(h), and 6511(d)(2)(A) of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.

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Title 19, §1918

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