---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 293"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "293"
heading: "Penalty for infraction"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/293"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Falsely Stamped Gold or Silver or Goods Manufactured Therefrom"
---

# §293. Penalty for infraction


Every [person](/usc/15/78m.md?p=h-8-E), partnership, [association](/usc/15/657h.md?p=a-2), or corporation violating the provisions of [sections 291 to 293](/usc/15/291..293.md) of this title, and every officer, director, or managing agent of such partnership, [association](/usc/15/657h.md?p=a-2), or corporation having knowledge of such [violation](/usc/15/57b–1.md?p=a-7) and directly participating in such [violation](/usc/15/57b–1.md?p=a-7) or consenting thereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, be punished with a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.


## Source credit

(Feb. 21, 1905, ch. 720, § 2, 33 Stat. 732.)