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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 20 — Dumping or Destruction of Interstate Produce

§ 493. Enforcement of provisions; prosecution of cases

Statutory text

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to enforce this chapter. It is made the duty of all United States attorneys to prosecute cases arising under this chapter, subject to the supervision and control of the Department of Justice.

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. 69–309 § 2 · 44 Stat. 560

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 493

    (Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 309, § 2, 44 Stat. 1355.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 309, § 2, 44 Stat. 1355.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. The Act of March 3, 1883 (Twenty-second Statutes at Large, page 590), and the Act of March 2, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 463), are hereby amended in accordance with the foregoing.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 309, § 2, 44 Stat. 1355.)

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