§ 729.407 - Penalty for failure to keep records and make reports.

Any person, who dries farmers stock peanuts by artificial means for a producer, any buyer, warehouseman, processor, common carrier of peanuts, any broker or dealer in peanuts, any agency marketing peanuts for a buyer or dealer, any peanut growers’ cooperative association, any person engaged in the business of cleaning, shelling, crushing, or salting peanuts, or manufacturing peanut products, or any person owning or operating a peanut combine, or any farmer engaged in the production of peanuts, who fails to make any report or keep any record, including electronic records, as required under this part or who makes any false report or record shall be deemed to have improperly handled peanuts for the quantity of peanuts to which such failure applies for which a penalty may be assessed under the provisions of this part or part 1446 of this title, as applicable. Such liability is in addition to criminal penalties or other remedies permitted by law.