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Title 7 — Agriculture

Part A · Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection

§ 2324. Restrictions on employees as to interest in plant variety protection

Statutory text

Employees of the Plant Variety Protection Office shall be ineligible during the periods of their employment, to apply for plant variety protection and to acquire directly or indirectly, except by inheritance or bequest, any right or interest in any matters before that office. This section shall not apply to members of the Plant Variety Protection Board who are not otherwise employees of the Plant Variety Protection Office.

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. 91–577 title I § 4 · 84 Stat. 1542

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2324

    (Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 4, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1542.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 4, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1542.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. Restrictions on Employees as to Interest in Plant Variety Protection. Employees of the Plant Variety Protection Office shall be ineligible during the periods of their employment, to apply for plant variety protection and to acquire directly or indirectly, except by inheritance or bequest, any right or interest in any matters before that office. This section shall not apply to members of the Plant Variety Protection Board who are not otherwise employees of the Plant Variety Protection Office.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 4, , 84 Stat. 1542.)

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