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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 26A — Agricultural Marketing Agreements

§ 672. Agreements; licenses, regulations, programs, etc., unaffected

Statutory text

(a)

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as invalidating any marketing agreement, license, or order, or any regulation relating to, or any provision of, or any act of the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with, any such agreement, license, or order which has been executed, issued, approved, or done under the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.], or any amendment thereof, but such marketing agreements, licenses, orders, regulations, provisions, and acts are expressly ratified, legalized, and confirmed.

(b)

Any program in effect under the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.], as reenacted and amended by this Act, on , shall continue in effect without the necessity for any amendatory action relative to such program, but any such program shall be continued in operation by the Secretary of Agriculture only to establish and maintain such orderly marketing conditions as will tend to effectuate the declared purpose set out in section 2 or 8c(18) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 602 or 608c(18)], as reenacted and amended by this Act.

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. 75–296 § 4 · 50 Stat. 246

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 672

    June 3, 1937, ch. 296, § 4, 50 Stat. 249

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 3, 1937, ch. 296, § 4, 50 Stat. 249

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as invalidating any Agreements, orders, etc., under Agricultural Adjustment Act ratified. marketing agreement, license, or order, or any regulation relating to, or any provision of, or any act of the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with, any such agreement, license, or order which has been executed, issued, approved, or done under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, or any amendment thereof, but such marketing agreements, licenses, orders, regulations, provisions, and acts are hereby expressly ratified, legalized, and confirmed.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act June 3, 1937, ch. 296, 50 Stat. 246, known as the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act, referred to in text, is title I of act May 12, 1933, ch. 25, 48 Stat. 31, which is classified generally to chapter 26 (§ 601 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 601 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1948—Act , designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1948 Amendment

Amendment by act , effective , see section 303 of act , set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.

Credits

1937–1948 · 2 acts
  1. 1937June 3, 1937, ch. 296, § 4, 50 Stat. 249
  2. 1948July 3, 1948, ch. 827, title III, § 302(e), 62 Stat. 1258.
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(June 3, 1937, ch. 296, § 4, 50 Stat. 249; July 3, 1948, ch. 827, title III, § 302(e), 62 Stat. 1258.)

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