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Penalty.

C o u r t jurisdiction. Effective dates.

PUBLIC DAW 336-AUG. 9, 1955

Rubber facility. 67 Stat. 408. 50 USC app. 1941 note. Plancor 980. Institute, W. Va. 50 U S C a p p. 194 l e.

Negotiation period.

Report to Congress.

s o u s e app. 194 Ig. Transfer period.

STAT.

has filed a statement with the tobacco tax administrator under subsection (a)(1) of this section, be presumptive evidence (1) that such cigarettes were sold, or transferred for profit, by such person, and (2) that such sale or transfer was to other than a distributor licensed by or located in such State. "SEC. 3. Whoever violates any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both. "SEC. 4. The United States district courts shall have jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this Act." SEC. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the amendments made by this Act shall take effect thirty days after the date of its enactment. (b) The provisions of section 2(a) of the Act of October 19, 1949, as amended by this Act, insofar as it requires the filing of memoranda or copies of invoices with the appropriate tax administrator for shipments of cigarettes into the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, shall apply in respect of memoranda or copies of invoices covering shipments made during calendar months beginning after the month in which this Act is enacted. Approved August 9, 1955. Public Law 336

August 9, 1955 [H. R. 7301]

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CHAPTER 696

AN ACT To amend the Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Act of 1953, as heretofore amended, so as to permit the disposal thereunder of Plancor Numbered 980 at Institute, West Virginia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Act of 1953, as heretofore amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "SEC. 26. (a) Notwithstanding the second sentence of section 7(a), the period for receipt of proposals for the purchase of the Government-owned rubber-producing facility at Institute, West Virginia, known as Plancor Numbered 980, shall not expire until the end of the sixty-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this section. "(b) If one or more proposals are received for the purchase of Plancor Numbered 980 within the time period specified in subsection (a), the Commission, notwithstanding the expiration of the period for negotiation specified in section 7(f), shall negotiate with those submitting the proposals for a period of not to exceed seventy-five days for the purpose of entering into a definite contract of sale. "(c) Within ten days after the termination of the actual negotiation period referred to in subsection (b), or, if Congress is not then in session, within ten days after Congress next convenes, the Commission shall prepare and submit to the Congress a report containing, with respect to the disposal under this section of Plancor Numbered 980, the information described in paragraphs (1) to (5), inclusive, and paragraph (8) of section 9(a). Unless the contract is disapproved by either House of the Congress by a resolution prior to the expiration of thirty days of continuous session (as defined in section 9(c)) of the Congress following the date upon which the report is submitted to it, upon the expiration of such thirty-day period the contract shall become fully effective and the Commission shall

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