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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1985

PUBLIC LAW 99-205—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1701

registered or certified mail to the Farm Credit Administration. The Farm Credit Administration shall promptly certify and file in such Court the record upon which the penalty was imposed, as provided in section 2112 of title 28 of the United States Code. The findings of the Farm Credit Administration shall be set aside if found to be unsupported by substantial evidence as provided by section 706(2)(E) of title 5 of the United States Code. "(e) If any System institution or person fails to pay an assessment after it has become a final and unappealable order, or after the court of appeals has entered final judgment in favor of the Farm Credit Administration, the Farm Credit Administration shall refer the matter to the Attorney General, who shall recover the amount assessed by action in the appropriate United States district court. In such action, the validity and appropriateness of the final order imposing the penalty shall not be subject to review. "(f) The Farm Credit Administration shall promulgate regulations establishing procedures necessary to implement sections 5.31 and 5.32. "(g) All penalties collected under authority of this section shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. "SEC. 5.33. FURTHER PENALTIES.—Any director or officer, or former director or officer of a System institution, or any other person, against whom there is outstanding and effective any notice or order (which is an order which has become final) served upon such director, officer, or other person undei* section 5.28 or 5.29 of this Act, and who (1) participates in any manner in the conduct of the affairs of the institution involved, or directly or indirectly solicits or procures, or transfers or attempts to transfer, or votes or attempts to vote, any proxies, consents, or authorizations in respect of any voting rights in such institution, or (2) without the prior written approval of the Farm Credit Administration, votes for a director, serves or acts as a director, officer, or employee of any System institution, shall upon conviction be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. "SEC. 5.34. REPLACEMENT OF SUSPENDED OR REMOVED DIRECTORS.— If at any time, because of the suspension or removal of one or more directors pursuant to section 5.28 or 5.29 of this Act, there shall be on the board of directors of a System institution less than a quorum of directors not so suspended, the Chairman shall appoint persons to serve temporarily as directors in their place and stead so as to establish a quorum until such time as those who have been removed are reinstated or their respective successors are duly elected and take office. "SEC. 5.35. DEFINITIONS.—As used in this part— "(1) the terms 'cease and desist order that has become final' and 'order which has become final' mean a cease and desist order, or an order, issued by the Farm Credit Administration with the consent of the System institution or the director or officer or other person concerned, or with respect to which no petition for review of the action of the Farm Credit Administration has been filed and perfected in a court of appeals as specified in section 5.300t)) of this Act, or with respect to which the action of the court in which such petition is so filed is not subject to further review by the Supreme Court of the United States in proceedings provided for in section 5.30(b) of this Act, or an order issued under section 5.29 of this Act;

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Regulations, Ante, p. 1700. 12 USC 2269.

Ante, pp. 1696, 1698.

12 USC 2270.

12 USC 2271.

Ante, p. 1699.