Title 13 Relevant Sections

Attachment H
Department of Commerce
United States Census Bureau
OMB Information Collection Request
2020-2022 Report of Organization
OMB Control Number 0607-0444
Title 13 Relevant Sections

Title 13 U.S.C

§131. Collection and publication; five-year periods
The Secretary shall take, compile, and publish censuses of manufactures, of mineral industries, and of
other businesses, including the distributive trades, service establishments, and transportation (exclusive
of means of transportation for which statistics are required by law to be filed with, and are compiled
and published by, a designated regulatory body), in the year 1964, then in the year 1968, and every fifth
year thereafter, and each such census shall relate to the year immediately preceding the taking thereof.

§182. Surveys
The Secretary may make surveys deemed necessary to furnish annual and other interim current data on
the subjects covered by the censuses provided for in this title.

§224. Failure to answer questions affecting companies, businesses, religious bodies, and other
organizations; false answers
Whoever, being the owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant to the person in charge, of any
company, business, institution, establishment, religious body, or organization of any nature whatsoever,
neglects or refuses, when requested by the Secretary or other authorized officer or employee of the
Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, to answer completely and correctly to the best
of his knowledge all questions relating to his company, business, institution, establishment, religious
body, or other organization, or to records or statistics in his official custody, contained on any census or
other schedule or questionnaire prepared and submitted to him under the authority of this title, shall be
fined not more than $500; and if he willfully gives a false answer to any such question, he shall be fined
not more than $10,000.

§225. Applicability of penal provisions in certain cases
(a) In connection with any survey conducted by the Secretary or other authorized officer or employee of
the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof pursuant to subchapter IV of chapter 5 of
this title, the provisions of sections 221, 222, 223 and 224 of this title shall apply—

(1) with respect to the answering of questions and furnishing of information, only to such inquiries as
are within the scope of the schedules and questionnaires and of the type and character heretofore used
in connection with the taking of complete censuses under subchapters I and II of chapter 5 of this title,
or in connection with any censuses hereafter taken pursuant to such subchapters;

(2) only after publication of a determination with reasons therefor certified by the Secretary, or by some
other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof with
the approval of the Secretary, that the information called for is needed to aid or permit the efficient
performance of essential governmental functions or services, or has significant application to the needs
of the public, business, or industry and is not publicly available from nongovernmental or other
governmental sources;

(3) in the case of any new survey, only after public notice, given by the Secretary or other authorized
officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof at least thirty days in
advance of requesting a return, that such survey is under consideration.

(b) The provisions for imprisonment provided by section 222 of this title shall not apply in connection
with any survey conducted pursuant to subchapter II of chapter 3 of this title, or to subchapter IV of
chapter 5 of this title.

(c) The provisions of sections 221, 222, 223, and 224 of this title shall not apply to any censuses or
surveys of governments provided for by subchapters III and IV of chapter 5 of this title, nor to other
surveys provided for by subchapter IV of such chapter which are taken more frequently than annually.

(d) Where the doctrine, teaching, or discipline of any religious denomination or church prohibits the
disclosure of information relative to membership, a refusal, in such circumstances, to furnish such
information shall not be an offense under this chapter.