§1372 Payment, Collection, and Refund of Penalties

Summary

Buyers must collect the penalty when wheat, cotton, or rice is sold to anyone inside the United States. 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 it to the Secretary, or if someone else is required to collect it, that collector must send it. These penalties go into the general fund of the U.S. Treasury, except as provided in section 1314h. If someone pays a penalty but files a claim within two years and the Secretary finds it was wrongly collected, the Secretary will tell the Treasury to pay a refund under Treasury rules. The Secretary can set rules to identify farms, handle special deposit accounts or transfers, and govern how claims and refunds are filed and decided. No penalty is collected for crops grown only for experiments at public agricultural experiment stations. Starting with the 1978 crops, no penalty is collected for crops grown on State prison farms when those crops are used inside that prison system.