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Title 7 — Agriculture

Part C · Chapter 35 — Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

§ 1365. Institution of proceeding for court review of committee findings

Statutory text

If the farmer is dissatisfied with the determination of the review committee, he may, within fifteen days after a notice of such determination is mailed to him by registered mail or by certified mail, file a bill in equity against the review committee as defendant in the United States district court, or institute proceedings for review in any court of record of the State having general jurisdiction, sitting in the county or the district in which his farm is located, for the purpose of obtaining a review of such determination. Bond shall be given in an amount and with surety satisfactory to the court to secure the United States for the costs of the proceeding. The bill of complaint in such proceeding may be served by delivering a copy thereof to any one of the members of the review committee. Thereupon the review committee shall certify and file in the court a transcript of the record upon which the determination complained of was made, together with its findings of fact.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

    Pub. L. 75–30 · 52 Stat. 31

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 1365

    Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 365, 52 Stat. 63

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 365, 52 Stat. 63

  2. Pub. L. 86–507 § 1(5) · 74 Stat. 200

    Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 1365

    Pub. L. 86–507 inserted “or by certified mail” after “registered mail”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 86–507 inserted “or by certified mail” after “registered mail”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) section 12(b) of the Act of August 2, 1939, as added by section 4 of the Act of July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 767; 5 U.S.C. 118k), is amended by inserting “or by certified mail” immediately following the words “registered mail” wherever such words appear therein.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1960—Pub. L. 86–507 inserted “or by certified mail” after “registered mail”.

Credits

1938–1960 · 2 acts
  1. 1938Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 365, 52 Stat. 63
  2. 1960Pub. L. 86–507, § 1(5), , 74 Stat. 200.
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(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 365, 52 Stat. 63; Pub. L. 86–507, § 1(5), , 74 Stat. 200.)

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