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CHAPTER 1— ADMINISTRATION
SUBCHAPTER I— GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 1. Definitions - (1) “Bureau” means the Bureau of the Census; (2) “Secretary”...
§ 2. Bureau of the Census - The Bureau is continued as an agency within, and under...
§ 3. Seal - The Bureau shall have a seal containing such device as...
§ 4. Functions of Secretary; regulations; delegation - The Secretary shall perform the functions and duties imposed upon...
§ 5. Questionnaires; number, form, and scope of inquiries - The Secretary shall prepare questionnaires, and shall determine the inquiries,...
§ 6. Information from other Federal departments and agencies; acquisition of reports from other governmental and private sources - (a) The Secretary, whenever he considers it advisable, may call...
§ 7. Printing; requisitions upon Director of the Government Publishing Office; publication of bulletins and reports - The Secretary may make requisition upon the Director of the...
§ 8. Authenticated transcripts or copies of certain returns; other data; restriction on use; disposition of fees received - (a) The Secretary may, upon written request, furnish to any...
§ 9. Information as confidential; exception - (a) Neither the Secretary, nor any other officer or employee...
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§ 11. Authorization of appropriations - There is authorized to be appropriated, out of the Treasury...
§ 12. Mechanical and electronic development - The Secretary is authorized to have conducted mechanical and electronic...
§ 13. Procurement of professional services - The Secretary shall have authority to contract with educational and...
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§ 15. Leases for 1980 decennial census - The 15 percent limitation contained in section 322 of the...
§ 16. Address information reviewed by States and local governments - (a) The Secretary, to assist efforts to ensure the accuracy...
SUBCHAPTER II— OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
§ 21. Director of the Census; duties - (a) Appointment.—(1) In general.—The Bureau shall be headed by a...
§ 22. Qualifications of permanent personnel - All permanent officers and employees of the Bureau shall be...
§ 23. Additional officers and employees - (a) The Secretary may establish, at rates of compensation to...
§ 24. Special employment provisions - (a) The Secretary may utilize the services of nontemporary employees...
§ 25. Duties of supervisors, enumerators, and other employees - (a) Each supervisor shall perform the duties imposed upon him...
§ 26. Transportation by contract - The Secretary may contract with field employees for the rental...
CHAPTER 3— COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF STATISTICS
SUBCHAPTER I— COTTON
§ 41. Collection and publication - (1) amount of cotton ginned; (2) quantity of raw cotton...
§ 42. Contents of reports; number of bales of linter; distribution; publication by Department of Agriculture - (a) The statistics of the quantity of cotton ginned shall...
§ 43. Records and reports of cotton ginners - Every cotton ginner shall keep a record of the county...
§ 44. Foreign cotton statistics - In addition to the information regarding cotton in the United...
§ 45. Simultaneous publication of cotton reports - The reports of cotton ginned to the dates as of...
SUBCHAPTER II— OILSEEDS, NUTS, AND KERNELS; FATS, OILS, AND GREASES
§ 61. Collection and publication - (a) The Secretary shall collect, collate, and publish monthly statistics...
§ 62. Additional statistics - This subchapter does not restrict or limit the Secretary in...
§ 63. Duplicate collection of statistics prohibited; access to available statistics - Statistics required under Federal law, as of the effective date...
SUBCHAPTER III— APPAREL AND TEXTILES
§ 81. Statistics on apparel and textile industries - The Secretary shall collect and publish quarterly statistics relating to...
SUBCHAPTER IV— QUARTERLY FINANCIAL STATISTICS
§ 91. Collection and publication - (a) The Secretary shall collect and publish quarterly financial statistics...
SUBCHAPTER V— MISCELLANEOUS
§ 101. Defective, dependent, and delinquent classes; crime - (a) The Secretary may collect decennially statistics relating—(1) to the...
§ 102. Religion - The Secretary may collect decennially statistics relating to religious bodies.
§ 103. Designation of reports - All reports covering any of the statistics collected under the...
CHAPTER 5— CENSUSES
SUBCHAPTER I— MANUFACTURES, MINERAL INDUSTRIES, AND OTHER BUSINESSES
§ 131. Collection and publication; five-year periods - The Secretary shall take, compile, and publish censuses of manufactures,...
§ 132. Controlling law; effect on other agencies - To the extent that the provisions of this subchapter or...
SUBCHAPTER II— POPULATION, HOUSING, AND UNEMPLOYMENT
§ 141. Population and other census information - (a) The Secretary shall, in the year 1980 and every...
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SUBCHAPTER III— GOVERNMENTS
§ 161. Quinquennial censuses; inclusion of certain data - The Secretary shall take, compile, and publish for the year...
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§ 163. Authority of other agencies - This subchapter does not revoke or impair the authority of...
SUBCHAPTER IV— INTERIM CURRENT DATA
§ 181. Population - (a) During the intervals between each census of population required...
§ 182. Surveys - The Secretary may make surveys deemed necessary to furnish annual...
§ 183. Use of most recent population data - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), for the purpose...
§ 184. Definitions - (1) the term “local unit of general purpose government” means...
SUBCHAPTER V— GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE, PRELIMINARY AND SUPPLEMENTAL STATISTICS, AND USE OF SAMPLING
§ 191. Geographic scope of censuses - (a) Each of the censuses authorized by this chapter shall...
§ 193. Preliminary and supplemental statistics - In advance of, in conjunction with, or after the taking...
§ 195. Use of sampling - Except for the determination of population for purposes of apportionment...
§ 196. Special censuses - The Secretary may conduct special censuses for the government of...
CHAPTER 7— OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
SUBCHAPTER I— OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
§ 211. Receiving or securing compensation for appointment of employees - (1) receives or secures to himself any fee, reward, or...
§ 212. Refusal or neglect of employees to perform duties - Whoever, being an employee referred to in subchapter II of...
§ 213. False statements, certificates, and information - (a) Whoever, being an officer or employee referred to in...
§ 214. Wrongful disclosure of information - Whoever, being or having been an employee or staff member...
SUBCHAPTER II— OTHER PERSONS
§ 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers - (a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or...
§ 222. Giving suggestions or information with intent to cause inaccurate enumeration of population - Whoever, either directly or indirectly, offers or renders to any...
§ 223. Refusal, by owners, proprietors, etc., to assist census employees - Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of...
§ 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...
§ 225. Applicability of penal provisions in certain cases - (a) In connection with any survey conducted by the Secretary...
SUBCHAPTER III— PROCEDURE
§ 241. Evidence - When any request for information, made by the Secretary or...
CHAPTER 9— COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF FOREIGN COMMERCE AND TRADE STATISTICS
§ 301. Collection and publication - (a) The Secretary is authorized to collect information from all...
§ 302. Rules, regulations, and orders - The Secretary may make such rules, regulations, and orders as...
§ 303. Secretary of Treasury functions - To assist the Secretary to carry out the provisions of...
§ 304. Filing export information, delayed filings, penalties for failure to file - (a) The information or reports in connection with the exportation...
§ 305. Penalties for unlawful export information activities - (a) Criminal Penalties.—(1) Failure to file; submission of false or...
§ 306. Delegation of functions - Subject to the concurrence of the head of the department...
§ 307. Relationship to general census law - The following sections only, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,...
CHAPTER 10— EXCHANGE OF CENSUS INFORMATION
§ 401. Exchange of census information with Bureau of Economic Analysis - (a) Exchange of Information.—The Bureau of the Census shall exchange...
§ 402. Providing business data to Designated Statistical Agencies - The Bureau of the Census may provide business data to...