§1372 Payment, collection, and refund of penalties

Summary

Buyers must collect the penalty when wheat, cotton, or rice is sold to someone inside the United States. All other penalties in part B must be collected and paid the way the Secretary of Agriculture’s rules say. The person who owes the penalty must send the money to the Secretary, or if someone else is in charge of collecting it, that person must send it. Except as section 1314h says, the money goes into the general fund of the U.S. Treasury. If someone files a claim within two years after paying a penalty and the Secretary finds the payment was wrong, the Secretary will tell the Treasury Department to pay the refund under Treasury rules. The Secretary can make rules to ID farms so receipts can go into special accounts or the separate fund in subsection (b) without using producers’ names, and can make rules for claims and refunds. No penalty may be collected for crops grown only for experiments by public agricultural experiment stations. Starting with the 1978 crops, no penalty may be collected for crops grown on State prison farms that are used inside that State prison system.