Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 37 — Seeds
§ 1602. Separability
Statutory text
The institution of any one of the proceedings provided for in sections 1595, 1596, 1599 to 1601 of this title shall not bar institution of any of the others, except that action shall not be instituted under both subsections 1596(a) and (b) of this title for the same cause of action. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to recommend prosecution, or institution of civil penalty proceedings, libel proceedings, cease-and-desist proceedings, or proceedings for the enforcement of a cease-and-desist order, for minor violations of this chapter or the rules and regulations made and promulgated thereunder whenever he believes that the public interest will be adequately served by suitable written notice or warning.
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.
Pub. L. 76–615 · 53 Stat. 1275
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 1602
Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 412, 53 Stat. 1288
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 412, 53 Stat. 1288
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Editorial Notes
Amendments
1956—Act , inserted references to civil penalties as well as criminal penalties under section 1596 of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1956 Amendment
Amendments made by act , applicable only with respect to violations occurring after , see section 4 of act , set out as a note under section 1596 of this title.
Effective Date
Credits
1939–1956 · 2 acts
- 1939Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 412, 53 Stat. 1288
- 1956July 9, 1956, ch. 520, § 3, 70 Stat. 508.
Show as published
(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 412, 53 Stat. 1288; July 9, 1956, ch. 520, § 3, 70 Stat. 508.)