Information as Confidential

(a)The Director shall have the sole authority to approve the contents of reports or data and the timing or release of information by the Bureau. CH. 1 OFFICE OF I MAGA’HÅGA/MAGA’LÅHI [THE GOVERNOR]

(b)Neither the Director nor any other officer or employee of the Authority, or the Office of I Maga’hågan/Maga’låhen Guåhan may use the information furnished under the provisions of this Article for any purpose other than the statistical purposes for which it is supplied, or make any publication whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment or individual under this Article can be identified.

(c)Whoever, being the owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant person in charge, of any company, business, institution, establishment, or organization of any nature whatsoever, neglects or refuses, when requested by the Director or other authorized officer or employee of the Bureau to answer completely and correctly to the best of that person’s knowledge all questions pertinent to the duties of the Authority set forth in § 1209.1 of this Title, and relating to that person’s company, business, institution, establishment or other organization, or to records or statistics in that person’s official custody, contained in any census or other schedule prepared and submitted to that person under authority of this Article, shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned not more than sixty

(60)days, or both; and if that person willfully gives a false answer to any such question, that person shall be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisoned not more than one

(1)year, or both.

(d)Whoever, being an officer or an employee of the Bureau, publishes or communicates, without the written authority of the Director, any information coming into that person’s possession by reason of that person’s employment under the provisions of this Article shall be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisoned not more than one

(1)year, or both.