§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. 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, unless someone else is required to collect it — then that person must send it. These penalty payments go into the U.S. Treasury general fund except as section 1314h says otherwise. If a person files a claim with the Secretary within two years after paying a penalty and the Secretary finds it was wrongly collected and the claimant paid it, the Secretary will tell the Treasury to pay the refund under Treasury rules. The Secretary may set rules to identify farms for handling these payments and to govern how claims and refunds are filed and decided. No penalties apply to crops grown only for public agricultural experiments. Beginning with the 1978 crops, no penalty applies to crops grown on State prison farms that stay within that State prison system.