§359 — Title 45 Railroads | U.S. Code

Summary

People like an employer’s officers or agents, employee representatives, employees acting for themselves, and other people who must give reports or information to the Board must not refuse to do so or knowingly give false statements or claims to get or stop payments. Doing so can bring a fine of up to $10,000, up to one year in jail, or both. Any deal that makes an employee pay any part of the employer’s required contribution is void. Employers may not make employees pay that part. Violating that rule can bring up to a $10,000 fine, up to one year in jail, or both. Other violations not already covered can bring up to a $1,000 fine, up to one year in jail, or both. All fines go to the court and are sent to the U.S. Treasury to be credited to the account.

Title 45, §359

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(a)Any officer or agent of an employer, or any employee representative, or any employee acting in his own behalf, or any person whether or not of the character hereinbefore defined, who shall willfully fail or refuse to make any report or furnish any information required by the Board in the administration of this chapter, or who shall knowingly make or aid in making or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statement or report when a statement or report is required to be made for the purposes of this chapter, or who shall knowingly make or aid in making or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statement or claim for the purpose of causing benefits or other payment to be made or not to be made under this chapter, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

(b)Any agreement by an employee to pay all or any portion of the contribution required of his employer under this chapter shall be void, and it shall be unlawful for any employer, or officer or agent of an employer, to make, require, or permit any employee to bear all or any portion of such contribution. Any employer, or officer or agent of an employer, who violates any provision of this subsection shall be punished for each such violation by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

(c)Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, the punishment for which is not otherwise provided, shall be punished for each such violation by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

(d)All fines and penalties imposed by a court pursuant to this chapter shall be paid to the court and be remitted from time to time by order of the judge to the Treasury of the United States to be credited to the account.

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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act June 25, 1938, ch. 680, 52 Stat. 1094, which enacted this chapter and amended section 503 and 1104 and former section 1107 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 367 of this title and Tables.

§359 Penalties

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Title 45, §359

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