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[CITE: 15USC1717]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                    CHAPTER 42--INTERSTATE LAND SALES
 
Sec. 1717. Penalties for violations

    Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this 
chapter, or the rules and regulations prescribed pursuant thereto, or 
any person who willfully, in a statement of record filed under, or in a 
property report issued pursuant to, this chapter, makes any untrue 
statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact 
required to be stated therein, shall upon conviction be fined not more 
than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(Pub. L. 90-448, title XIV, Sec. 1418, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 598; Pub. 
L. 96-153, title IV, Sec. 408, Dec. 21, 1979, 93 Stat. 1132.)


                               Amendments

    1979--Pub. L. 96-153 substituted ``$10,000'' for ``$5,000''.


                    Effective Date of 1979 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-153 effective on effective date of 
regulations implementing such amendment, but in no case later than six 
months following Dec. 21, 1979, see section 410 of Pub. L. 96-153, set 
out as a note under section 1701 of this title.