Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 21 — Tobacco Statistics
§ 502. Standards for classification; returns and blanks
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish standards for the classification of leaf tobacco, and he is authorized to demonstrate such standards, to prepare and distribute samples thereof, and to make reasonable charges therefor. He shall specify the types, groups of grades, qualities, colors, and/or grades, which shall be included in the returns required by this chapter. The Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare appropriate blanks upon which the returns shall be made, shall, upon request, furnish copies to persons who are required by this chapter to make returns, and such returns shall show the types, groups of grades, qualities, colors, and/or grades and such other information as the Secretary may require.
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. 70–69 § 2 · 45 Stat. 113
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 502
Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, § 2, 45 Stat. 1079
Source evidence
Code source credit
Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, § 2, 45 Stat. 1079Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1935—Act , inserted “and such returns shall show the types, groups of grades, qualities, colors, and/or grades and such other information as the Secretary may require” in last sentence.
Credits
1929–1935 · 2 acts
- 1929Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, § 2, 45 Stat. 1079
- 1935Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 749, § 2, 49 Stat. 894.
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(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, § 2, 45 Stat. 1079; Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 749, § 2, 49 Stat. 894.)