Department of Justice. Three types of legal action 

 may be taken in Federal courts against a person who 

 violates an order: 



1. Civil action may be brought to obtain an injunction. 

 This forbids the handler to further violate the order, 

 and makes him liable to contempt of court proceed- 

 ings if he does so. 



2. Criminal action may be brought and convicted 

 persons may be fined not less than $50 and not more 

 than $500 for each violation. 



3. Civil suit may be instituted for damages. A handler 

 may be required to pay a sum equal to the value of 

 the product shipped in violation of the allotment 

 provisions of an order. 



F. Exemptions. 



A marketing order may provide for exemptions to grow- 

 ers under certain conditions. For instance, a grower 

 might have his crop badly damaged by hail so that only 

 a small part of it could be shipped under the marketing 

 order quality regulations. An exemption might be 

 granted, authorizing him to ship as large a proportion 

 of his crop as the average shipped by the entire industry. 

 This type of provision can be included in any order, if the 

 industry feels it is advisable. 



Each marketing order also specifies the types of ship- 

 ments that are not covered, and not subject to regulation. 



TERMINATING AN ORDER 



Whenever a majority of the growers, who also produce at 

 least one-half of the crop, ask the Secretary of Agriculture 

 to terminate an order, he must do so. The Secretary also 

 must terminate or suspend a marketing order program if 

 he determines that it no longer carries out the declared 

 policy of the Act. 



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