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Title 7 — Agriculture

Part H · Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection

§ 2481. Plant variety protection

Statutory text

(a)

If it appears that a certificate of plant variety protection should be issued on an application, a written notice of allowance shall be given or mailed to the owner. The notice shall specify the sum, constituting the issue fee, which shall be paid within one month thereafter.

(b)

Upon timely payment of this sum, and provided that deposit of seed has been made in accordance with section 2422(3) 1 of this title, the certificate of plant variety protection shall issue.

(c)

If any payment required by this section is not timely made, but is submitted with an additional fee prescribed by the Secretary within nine months after the due date or within such further time as the Secretary may allow, it shall be accepted.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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 II § 81 · 84 Stat. 1542

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2481

    (Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 81, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1551.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 81, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1551.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 81. Plant Variety Protection. (a) If it appears that a certificate of plant variety protection should be issued on an application, a written notice of allowance shall be given or mailed to the owner. The notice shall specify the sum, constituting the issue fee, which shall be paid within one month thereafter. (b) Upon timely payment of this sum, and provided that deposit of seed has been made in accordance with section 52(3), the certificate of plant variety protection shall issue. (c) If any payment required by this section is not timely made, but is submitted with an additional fee prescribed by the Secretary within nine months after the due date or within such further time as the Secretary may allow, it shall be accepted.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 2422(3) of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was redesignated section 2422(4) of this title by Pub. L. 103–349, § 4, , 108 Stat. 3139.

Credits

(Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 81, , 84 Stat. 1551.)

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