AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT ECONOMIC CENSUSES -- SECTION 131
131. Collection and publication; five-year periods
The Secretary shall take, compile, and publish censuses of manufactures, of
mineral industries, and of other businesses, including the distributive
trades, service establishments, and transportation (exclusive of means of
transportation for which statistics are required by law to be filed with, and
are compiled and published by, a designated regulatory body), in the year
1964, then in the year 1968, and every fifth year thereafter, and each such
census shall relate to the year immediately preceding the taking thereof.
224. Failure to answer questions affecting companies, businesses, religious
bodies, and other organizations; false answers.
Whoever, being the owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant to
the person in charge, of any company, business, institution, establishment,
religious body, or organization of any nature whatsoever, neglects or refuses,
when requested by the Secretary or other authorized officer or employee of the
Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, to answer completely and
correctly to the best of his knowledge all questions relating to his company,
business, institution, establishment, religious body, or other organization,
or to records or statistics in his official custody, contained on any census
or other schedule or questionnaire prepared and submitted to him under the
authority of this title, shall be fined not more than $500; and if he
willfully gives a false answer to any such question, he shall be fined not
more than $10,000.
9(a). Information as confidential
Whoever, being or having been an employee or staff member referred
to in subchapter II of chapter 1 of this title, having taken and
subscribed the oath of office, or having sworn to observe the limitations
imposed by section 9 of this title, publishes or
communicates any information, the disclosure of which is prohibited
under the provisions of section 9 of this title, and which comes into
his possession by reason of his being employed (or otherwise providing
services under the provisions of this title, shall be fined not more than $5,000
or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
MANDATORY PROVISIONS OF LAW -- SECTION 224
PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION -- SECTIONS 9 AND 221
214. Wrongful disclosure of information
Questions? econ@census.gov
Revised: 01/13/97