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Legal Requirements Title 13 U.S. Code Section Excerpts
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Sec. 9. Information as confidential; exception
(a) Neither the Secretary, nor any other officer or employee
of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, or local
government census liaison may, except as provided in section 8 or 16 or
chapter 10 of this title or section 210 of the Departments of Commerce,
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1998 shall:
- use the information furnished under the provisions of this title
for any purpose other than the statistical purposes for which it is
supplied; or
- make any publication whereby the data furnished by any particular
establishment or individual under this title can be identified; or
- permit anyone other than the sworn officers and employees of the
Department or bureau or agency thereof to examine the individual
reports. No department, bureau, agency, officer, or employee of the
Government, except the Secretary in carrying out the purposes of this
title, shall require, for any reason, copies of census reports which
have been retained by any such establishment or individual. Copies of
census reports which have been so retained shall be immune from legal
process, and shall not, without the consent of the individual or
establishment concerned, be admitted as evidence or used for any
purpose in any action, suit, or other judicial or administrative
proceeding.
Sec. 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.
Sec. 214. Wrongful disclosure of information
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, or whoever, being or
having been a census liaison within the meaning of section 16(2) 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.
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- The Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994, P.L. 103-430 amends
section 9(a) by inserting "or local government census liaison" and
adding references to section 16. P.L. 105-119, the Departments of
Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 1998, adds the reference to section 210.
- The Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-430)
amends section 214 making references to section 16 and "census
liaisons."
Sec. 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.
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