Penalty for failure to surrender possession of evacuee property

Save as provided under section 3, any person who fails to comply with a notice of demand by or on behalf of the Custodian under the provisions of this Act to surrender possession of any evacuee property shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both. Where any movable evacuee property is returned under Section 15, or is disposed of by sale or is otherwise released, the Custodian may recover account of the maintenance, repair, transport or storage of such property and subject to such conditions, if any, as the Government may by general or a special order from time to time, direct.