92 STAT. 1858
PUBLIC LAW 95-521—OCT. 26, 1978 have been sold is filed and made available to the public as provided under paragraph (5) of this subsection, (g) Political campaign funds, including campaign receipts and expenditures, need not be included in any report filed pursuant to this title. F I L I N G OF REPORTS
Judicial Ethics Committee. 28 USC app.
Legislative recommendations to G)ngress and the President. Regulation.
SEC. 303. (a) The Judicial Conference of the United States shall establish a Judicial Ethics Committee which shall be responsible for developing the forms for reporting the information required by this title and for receiving and making available, in accordance with the provisions of this title, the reports described in section 301. (b) Each judicial officer and judicial employee shall file the report required by this title with the Committee and shall file a copy of such report as a public document with the clerk of the court on which he sits or serves. (c) In the performance of its functions under this title, the Committee, with the approval of the Judicial Conference of the United States, shall— (1) develop the necessary forms and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary; (2) monitor and investigate compliance with the requirements of this title; (3) provide for the availability of reports as required by section 305; (4) conduct, or cause to be conducted, the reviews required by section 306; (5) cooperate with the Attorney General in enforcing the requirements of this title; (6) submit to the Congress and the President recommendations for legislative revision of this title; (7) perform such other functions as may be assigned by the Judicial Conference of the United States. (d) The Committee shall, within one hundred and twenty days after the date of enactment of this Act, develop and, with the approval of the Judicial Conference of the United States, promulgate a regulation establishing a method or methods for readily determining, without the necessity for expert appraisal, the fair market value of assets required to be disclosed by this title. . ^ FAILURE TO FILE OR FALSIFYING REPORTS
Gvil action. 28 USC app.
SEC. 304. (a) The Attorney General may bring a civil action in any appropriate United States District Court against any individual who knowingly and willfully falsifies or who knowingly or willfully fails to file or report any information that such individual is required to report pursuant to section 302. The court in which such action is brought may assess against such individual a civil penalty in any amount not to exceed $5,000. (b) The Committee shall refer to the Attorney General the name of any individual the Committee has reasonable cause to believe has willfully failed to file a report or has willfully falsified or failed to file information required to be reported.
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