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PUBLIC LAW 87-703-SEPT. 27, 1962

[76 S TAT.

"(c) Any person who, in his capacity as a producer, knowingly violates or attempts to violate or participates or aids in the violation of any provision of this subtitle, or of any regulation, governing the acquisition, disposition, or handling of marketing certificates or fails to make any report or keep any record as required by section 379h shall, (i) forfeit any right to receive marketing certificates, in whole or in part as the Secretary may determine, with respect to the farm or farms and for the marketing year with respect to which any such act or default is committed, or (ii), if such marketing certificates have already been issued, pay to the Secretary, upon demand, the amount of the face value of such certificates, or such part thereof as the Secretary may determine. Such determination by the Secretary with respect to the amount of such marketing certificates to be forfeited or the amount to be paid hj such producer shall take into consideration the circumstances relating to the act or default committed and the seriousness of such a:ct or default. " (d) Any person who falsely makes, issues, alters, forges, or counterfeits any marketing certificate, or with fraudulent intent possesses, transfers, or uses any such falsely made, issued, altered, forged, or counterfeited marketing certificate, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment of not more than ten years, or both. li REGULATIONS

63 Stat. 1051.

"SEC. 379j. The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subtitle including but not limited to regulations governing the acquisition, disposition, or handling of marketing certificates." SEC. 325. The Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended as

7 USC 1421 note, f o l l o w s:

74 Stat. 6. 7 USC 1445.

es Stat. 1054. 7 USC 1421.

(1) By inserting after section 106 the following new section: "SEC. 107. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 101 of this Act, beginning with the 1964 crop— " (1) price support for wheat accompanied by marketing certificates shall be at such level not less than 65 per centum or more than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor as the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration the factors specified in section 401(b), «^2^ jf marketing quotas are in effect for wheat price support for wheat not accompanied by marketing certificates shall be at such level as the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration competitive world prices of wheat, the feeding value of wheat in relation to feed grains, and the level at which price support is made available for feed grains, "(3) price support shall be made available only to cooperators; and if a commercial wheat-producing area is established for such crop, price support shall be made available only in the commercial wheat-producing area, " (4) the level of price support for any crop of wheat for which ' a national marketing quota is not proclaimed or for which marketing quotas have been disapproved by producers shall be as provided in section 101, and "(5) if marketing quotas are in effect for the crop of wheat, a 'cooperator' with respect to any crop of wheat produced on a farm '^ shall be a producer who (i) does not knowingly exceed (A) the farm acreage allotment for wh^at or any other commodity on the farm or (B) except as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe, the farm acreage allotment on any other farm for any

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