Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 25 — Export Standards for Apples
§ 581. Standards of export; establishment; shipping without certificate forbidden; hearings
Statutory text
It shall be unlawful for any person to ship or offer for shipment or for any carrier, or any steamship company, or any person to transport or receive for transportation to any foreign destination, except as provided in this chapter, any apples in packages which are not accompanied by a certificate issued under authority of the Secretary of Agriculture showing that such apples are of a Federal or State grade which meets the minimum of quality established by the Secretary for shipment in export. The Secretary is authorized to prescribe, by regulations, the requirements, other than those of grade, which the fruit must meet before certificates are issued. The Secretary shall provide opportunity, by public hearing or otherwise, for interested persons to examine and make recommendation with respect to any standard of export proposed to be established or designated, or regulation prescribed, by the Secretary for the purposes of this chapter.
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. 73–59 § 1 · 48 Stat. 123
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 581
June 10, 1933, ch. 59, § 1, 48 Stat. 123
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 10, 1933, ch. 59, § 1, 48 Stat. 123Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) The term “person” includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations.Pub. L. 106–96 § 1(c) · 113 Stat. 1321
Struck · 7 U.S.C. § 581
Pub. L. 106–96 struck out “and/or pears” after “any apples” and “or pears” after “such apples”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 106–96 struck out “and/or pears” after “any apples” and “or pears” after “such apples”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(c) Elimination of References to Pears.— Such Act is further amended— (1) by striking “and/or pears” each place it appears in the first section and sections 5 and 6; and 7 USC 581, 585, 586. (2) by striking “or pears” each place it appears in the first section and sections 2, 3, and 4. 7 USC 581–584.
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1999—Pub. L. 106–96 struck out “and/or pears” after “any apples” and “or pears” after “such apples”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Act June 10, 1933, ch. 59, § 11, as added by Pub. L. 106–96, § 1(a), , 113 Stat. 1321, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Export Apple Act’.”.
Credits
1933–1999 · 2 acts
- 1933June 10, 1933, ch. 59, § 1, 48 Stat. 123
- 1999Pub. L. 106–96, § 1(c), , 113 Stat. 1321.
Show as published
(June 10, 1933, ch. 59, § 1, 48 Stat. 123; Pub. L. 106–96, § 1(c), , 113 Stat. 1321.)