Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 52.djvu/1041

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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 601-JUNE 23, 1938 Accounts, records, and reports. Filing of reports. Disclosure of stock ownership. By offcer or direc- tor. Form of accounts. Proviso. Additional accounts, records, etc., permit- ted. Inspection of ac- counts and property. transporting its mail by aircraft between such foreign country and an intermediate country on the route of such air carrier between such foreign country and the United States. ACCOUNTS, RECORDS, AND REPORTS Filing of Reports SEC. 407. (a) The Authority is empowered to require annual, monthly, eriodical, and special repor t s from any air carrier; to prescribe the manner and form in which such reports shall be made; and to require from any air carrier specific answers to all questions upon which the Authority may deem information to be necessary. Such reports shall be under oath whenever the Authority so requires. The Authority may also require any air carrier to file with it a true copy of each or any contract, agreement, understanding, or arrange- ment, between such air carrier and any other carrier or person, in relation to any traffic affected by the provisions of this Act. Disclosure of Stock Ownership (b) Each air carrier shall submit annually, and at such other times as the Authority shall require, a list showing the names of each of its stockholders or members holding more than 5 per centum of the entire capital stock or capital, as the case may be, of such air carrier, together with the name of any person for whose account, if other than the holder, such stock is held; and a report setting forth a description of the shares of stock, or other interests, held by such air carrier, or for its account, in persons other than itself. Disclosure of Stock Ownership by Officer or Director (c) Each officer and director of an air carrier shall annually and at such other times as the Authority shall require transmit to the Authority a report describing the shares of stock or other interests held by him in any air carrier, any person engaged in any phase of aeronautics, or any common carrier, and in any person whose principal business, in purpose or in fact, is the holding of stock in, or control of, air carriers, other persons engaged in any phase of aeronautics, or common carriers. Form of Accounts (d) The Authority shall prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records, and memoranda to be kept by air carriers, including the accounts, records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic, as well as of the receipts and expenditures of money, and the length of time such accounts, records, and memoranda shall be preserved; and it shall be unlawful for air carriers to keep any accounts, records, or memoranda other than those prescribed or approved by the Authority: Provided, That any air carrier may keep additional accounts, records, or memoranda if they do not impair the integrity of the accounts, records, or memoranda prescribed or approved by the Authority and do not constitute an undue financial burden on such air carrier. Inspection of Accounts and Property (e) The Authority shall at all times have access to all lands, build- ings, and equipment of any carrier and to all accounts, records, and memoranda, including all documents, papers, and correspondence, now or hereafter existing, and kept or required to be kept by air 1000 [52 STAT.