Section 23
SEC. 23. Upon conviction hereof, a fine of not more than six hundred pesos, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court shall be imposed upon: Any person who, being the owner, occupant, or per son in charge of any special area, institution, or establishment set apart to be enumerated under the provisions of sections fourteen and fifteen of this Act, or an officer, director, partner, associate, manager or legal representative of any corporation, partnership, association, institution, industrial or commercial establishment or enterprise, group of persons having a joint or common interest, or other property, in regard to which the collection of statistics is prescribed under the provisions of section fifteen of this Act, refuses or neglects properly to complete any Census form mailed or delivered to him and to subscribe the same; or Any person who, being a resident of such area, institution, or establishment, or an officer, director, manager, associate, partner, or employee of any such corporation, partnership, association, institution, industrial or commercial establishment, group of persons having a joint or common interest, or any other property, refuses or neglects, in the absence of the owner, occupant, or person in charge, or of an officer, director, manager, or legal representative to receive such form and make delivery thereof to such owner, occupant, person in charge, officer, director, manager, or legal representative; or Any person who, being the owner, occupant, or per son in charge of such special area, institution, or establishment, refuses or neglects to distribute the necessary schedules or forms to the passengers, guests, boarders, lodgers, inmates, patients, or other residents of the premises en titled thereto, and to report to the nearest officer or employee of the Census the names of those who refuse to receive or complete them; or Any person who refuses or neglects to deliver or transmit to the addressees any Census form mailed or delivered to him, in the manner and within the time prescribed; or Any person who refuses any Census officer or employee, acting In the discharge of his duty, entrance to any premises under his control, except portions of a private dwelling other than the room in which such officer or employee would naturally be received: Provided, That such entrance be not demanded to an extent beyond that necessary to secure the prescribed facts and statistics or to verify them after they have been entered upon the schedules by other persons; or Any person who obstructs any Census officer or employee in the discharge of his duty, or refuses or neglects to render him reasonable assistance, when called upon to do so; or Any person who misrepresents or attempts in any way to misrepresent the objects of the Census or to arouse hostility against it; or Any person who, being the owner of any animal, vehicle, ship or vessel of any kind, and such animal, vehicle, ahip or vessel being needed, in the absence of any other satisfactory facility, for the transportation of any Census officer or employee or the transmission of any form, cor respondence, or supplies, shall refuse without adequate rea son to permit the use of such animal, vehicle, ahip or vessel, on the request of the officer or employee of the Census responsible for such transportation or for the transmission of such forms, correspondence, or supplies, to the extent necessary for such transmission; or shall refuse to render such 'reasonable personal service as may be necessary in connection with the use of such animal, vehicle, ship or vessel; or shall demand an unusual or extortionate price or sum for the use of such means of transportation or for any service in connection therewith; or Any person who knowingly gives oral or written answers to any question upon a Census form or to any proper question asked by a Census officer or employee in the discharge of his duty, which shall prove to be materially untrue in any particular; or who alters or falsifies any Census form or declaration before or after it has been completed; or who signs any Census form or declaration after it has been completed in the knowledge that it is materially untrue In any particular; or who pays, compels, advises, or induces any other person to make or sign any such untrue statement or form; or who forges any Census form, completed or uncompleted.