[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1400.5]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1400_PAYMENT LIMITATION AND PAYMENT ELIGIBILITY--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 1400.5  Scheme or device.

    (a) All or any part of the payment otherwise due a person on all 
farms in which the person has an interest may be withheld or be required 
to be refunded if the person adopts or participates in adopting a scheme 
or device designed to evade this part or that has the effect of evading 
this part. Such acts shall include, but are not limited to:
    (1) Concealing information that affects the application of this 
part;
    (2) Submitting false or erroneous information; or
    (3) Creating fictitious entities for the purpose of concealing the 
interest of a person in a farming operation.
    (b) If the Deputy Administrator determines that a person has adopted 
a scheme or device to evade, or that has the purpose of evading, the 
provisions of sections 1001, 1001A, or 1001C of the Food Security Act of 
1985, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1281 note) such person shall be ineligible to 
receive payments under the programs specified in Sec. 1400.1 with 
respect to the year for which such scheme or device was adopted and the 
succeeding year.

[61 FR 37566, July 18, 1996, as amended at 67 FR 61470, Oct. 1, 2002]