CITE

    45 USC Sec. 359                                             01/08/2008

EXPCITE

    TITLE 45 - RAILROADS
    CHAPTER 11 - RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

HEAD

    Sec. 359. Penalties

STATUTE

    (a) Failure to make report or furnish information; false or
      fraudulent statement or claim
      Any officer or agent of an employer, or any employee
    representative, or any employee acting in his own behalf, or any
    person whether or not of the character hereinbefore defined, who
    shall willfully fail or refuse to make any report or furnish any
    information required by the Board in the administration of this
    chapter, or who shall knowingly make or aid in making or cause to
    be made any false or fraudulent statement or report when a
    statement or report is required to be made for the purposes of this
    chapter, or who shall knowingly make or aid in making or cause to
    be made any false or fraudulent statement or claim for the purpose
    of causing benefits or other payment to be made or not to be made
    under this chapter, shall be punished by a fine of not more than
    $10,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
    (b) Agreement by employee to bear employer's contribution
      Any agreement by an employee to pay all or any portion of the
    contribution required of his employer under this chapter shall be
    void, and it shall be unlawful for any employer, or officer or
    agent of an employer, to make, require, or permit any employee to
    bear all or any portion of such contribution. Any employer, or
    officer or agent of an employer, who violates any provision of this
    subsection shall be punished for each such violation by a fine of
    not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or
    both.
    (c) Punishments not specifically provided
      Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, the
    punishment for which is not otherwise provided, shall be punished
    for each such violation by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by
    imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
    (d) Payment and disposition of fines or penalties
      All fines and penalties imposed by a court pursuant to this
    chapter shall be paid to the court and be remitted from time to
    time by order of the judge to the Treasury of the United States to
    be credited to the account.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1938, ch. 680, Sec. 9, 52 Stat. 1103.)