Common use of Scheme or device Clause in Contracts

Scheme or device. All or any part of the payments oth- erwise due a person under the upland cotton, wheat, feed grain and rice pro- grams on all farms in which the person has an interest may be withheld or re- quired to be refunded if the person adopts or participates in adopting any scheme or device designed to evade or which has the effect of evading the rules of this part. Such acts shall in- clude, but are not limited to, con- cealing from the county committee any information having a bearing on the application of the rules of this part or submitting false information to the county committee (for example, a set- aside agreement which is entered into that differs from information furnished to the county committee concerning the manner in which program pay- ments are actually shared, concerning the actual facts of a sale, or concerning the transfer of property) or creating fictitious entities for the purpose of concealing the interest of a person in a farming operation.