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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 37 — Seeds

§ 1594. Prohibition against alterations

Statutory text

No person shall detach, alter, deface, or destroy any label provided for in this chapter or the rules and regulations made and promulgated thereunder by the Secretary of Agriculture, or alter or substitute seed in a manner that may defeat the purpose of this chapter.

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. Pub. L. 76–615 · 53 Stat. 1275

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 1594

    (Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 404, 53 Stat. 1286.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 404, 53 Stat. 1286.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Credits

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 404, 53 Stat. 1286.)

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