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7 U.S.C. § 1593 — Rules and regulations
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**(a)** The Secretary of Agriculture shall make such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for the effective enforcement of this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this section.
**(b)** The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture shall make, jointly or severally, such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary for the effective enforcement of subchapter III of this chapter.
**(c)** Prior to the promulgation of any rule or regulation under this chapter, due notice shall be given by publication in the Federal Register of intention to promulgate and the time and place of a public hearing to be held with reference thereto, and no rule or regulation may be promulgated until after such hearing. Any rule or regulation shall become effective on the date fixed in the promulgation, which date shall be not less than thirty days after publication in the Federal Register and may be amended or revoked in the manner provided for its promulgation.
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**(a)** The Secretary of Agriculture shall make such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for the effective enforcement of this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this section.
**(b)** The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture shall make, jointly or severally, such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary for the effective enforcement of subchapter III of this chapter.
**(c)** Prior to the promulgation of any rule or regulation under this chapter, due notice shall be given by publication in the Federal Register of intention to promulgate and the time and place of a public hearing to be held with reference thereto, and no rule or regulation may be promulgated until after such hearing. Any rule or regulation shall become effective on the date fixed in the promulgation, which date shall be not less than thirty days after publication in the Federal Register and may be amended or revoked in the manner provided for its promulgation.
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Sections 111 to 116 of this title are repealed on the one hundred and eightieth day after August 9, 1939: Provided, however, That the notices with respect to imported alfalfa and red clover seed promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture under the authority of sections 111 to 116 of this title, and in effect on August 9, 1939, shall remain with the same full force and effect as if promulgated under this chapter.
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**(a)** When used in this chapter—
(1) The term “United States” means the several States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
(2) The term “person” includes a partnership, corporation, company, society, or association.
(3) The term “interstate commerce” means—
(A) commerce between any State, Territory, possession, or the District of Columbia, and any other State, Territory, possession, or the District of Columbia; or
(B) commerce between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof; or
(C) commerce within the District of Columbia.
(4) For the purposes of this chapter with respect to labeling for treatment, variety and origin (but not in anywise limiting the foregoing definition), seeds shall be considered to be in interstate commerce, or delivered for transportation in interstate commerce, if such seeds are part of, or delivered for transportation in, that current of commerce usual in the transportation and/or merchandising of seeds, whereby such seeds are sent from one State with the expectation that they will end their transit in another, including, in addition to cases within the above general description, all cases where seeds are transported or delivered for transportation to another State, or for processing or cleaning for seeding purposes within the State and shipment outside the State of the processed or cleaned seeds. Seeds normally in such current of commerce shall not be considered out of such current through resort being had to any means or device intended to remove transactions in respect thereto from the provisions of this chapter.
(5) The term “foreign commerce” means commerce between the United States, its possessions, or any Territory of the United States, and
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 1593
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of the Secretary of Agri-
culture relating to agricultural import and entry in-
spection activities under this subchapter to the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of re-
lated references, see sections 231, 551(d), 552(d), and 557
of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of
Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November
25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542
of Title 6.
§ 1586. Certain acts prohibited
It shall be unlawful for any person—
(a) To sell or offer for sale—
(1) any seed for seeding purposes if imported
under this subchapter for other than seeding
purposes;
(2) any screenings of any seeds for seeding
purposes if imported under this subchapter for
other than seeding purposes; or
(3) any seed which is prohibited entry under
the provisions of this chapter.
(b) To make any false or misleading represen-
tation with respect to any seed subject to this
subchapter being imported into the United
States or offered for import: Provided, That this
subsection shall not be deemed violated by any
person if the false or misleading representation
is the name of a variety indistinguishable in ap-
pearance from the seed being imported or of-
fered for import and the records and other perti-
nent facts reveal that such person relied in good
faith upon representations with respect to the
name of the indistinguishable variety made by
the shipper of the seed.
(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title III, § 304, formerly
§ 306, 53 Stat. 1285; Pub. L. 85–581, § 15, Aug. 1,
1958, 72 Stat. 479; renumbered § 304, Pub. L.
97–439, § 5(b)(4), Jan. 8, 1983, 96 Stat. 2288; Pub. L.
103–465, title IV, § 441(4), Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat.
4973.)
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