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[CITE: 15USC2]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
      CHAPTER 1--MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE
 
Sec. 2. Monopolizing trade a felony; penalty

    Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or 
combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any 
part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign 
nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, 
shall be punished by fine not exceeding $10,000,000 if a corporation, 
or, if any other person, $350,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 
three years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the 
court.

(July 2, 1890, ch. 647, Sec. 2, 26 Stat. 209; July 7, 1955, ch. 281, 69 
Stat. 282; Pub. L. 93-528, Sec. 3, Dec. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 1708; Pub. L. 
101-588, Sec. 4(b), Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 2880.)


                               Amendments

    1990--Pub. L. 101-588 substituted ``$10,000,000'' for ``one million 
dollars'' and ``$350,000'' for ``one hundred thousand dollars''.
    1974--Pub. L. 93-528 substituted ``a felony, and, on conviction 
thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one million dollars if 
a corporation, or, if any other person, one hundred thousand dollars, or 
by imprisonment not exceeding three years'' for ``a misdemeanor, and, on 
conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty 
thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year''.
    1955--Act July 7, 1955, substituted ``fifty thousand dollars'' for 
``five thousand dollars''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 18a of this title; title 12 
section 1849.