---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2112"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2112"
heading: "Enforcement of orders; penalty for willful violation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2112"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Cotton Research and Promotion"
---

# §2112. Enforcement of orders; penalty for willful violation

- (a) The several district courts of the [United States](/usc/7/2116.md?p=e) are vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce, and to prevent and restrain any [person](/usc/7/2116.md?p=b) from violating any order or regulation made or issued pursuant to this chapter.
- (b) Any [handler](/usc/7/2116.md?p=d) who willfully violates any provision of any order issued by the [Secretary](/usc/7/2116.md?p=a) under this chapter, or who willfully fails or refuses to collect or remit any assessment or fee duly required of him thereunder, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $1,000 for each such offense which shall accrue to the [United States](/usc/7/2116.md?p=e) and may be recovered in a civil suit brought by the [United States](/usc/7/2116.md?p=e).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–502, § 13, July 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 284.)