7 U.S.C. § 1551 — Short title

Page 879 TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE § 1561 Sec. 1595. Seizure. 1596. Penalties. 1597. Agent’s acts as binding principal. 1598. Notice of intention to prosecute. 1599. Cease and desist proceedings. 1600. Appeal to court of appeals. 1601. Enforcement of order. 1602. Separability. 1603. Procedural powers; witness fees and mileage. 1604. Publication. 1605. Authorization of appropriations. 1606. Authorization of expenditures. 1607. Cooperation with other governmental agen- cies. 1608. Separability. 1609. Repeals. 1610. Effective date. SUBCHAPTER V—SALE OF UNCERTIFIED SEED OF PROTECTED VARIETY 1611. Illegal sales of uncertified seed. § 1551. Short title This chapter may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Seed Act.’’ (Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, § 1, 53 Stat. 1275.) Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE See section 1610 of this title. SHORT TITLE OF 1983 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 97–439, § 1, Jan. 8, 1983, 96 Stat. 2287, provided that: ‘‘This Act [amending sections 1561, 1571, 1581, 1582, 1585, and 1586 of this title and repealing sections 1583 and 1584 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Federal Seed Act Amendments of 1982’.’’ SUBCHAPTER I—DEFINITIONS § 1561. Definition of terms (a) When used in this chapter— (1) The term ‘‘United States’’ means the sev- eral States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. (2) The term ‘‘person’’ includes a partner- ship, corporation, company, society, or asso- ciation. (3) The term ‘‘interstate commerce’’ means— (A) commerce between any State, Terri- tory, 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 Co- lumbia. (4) For the purposes of this chapter with re- spect to labeling for treatment, variety and origin (but not in anywise limiting the fore- going 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 transpor- tation 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 deliv- ered 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 in- tended to remove transactions in respect thereto from the provisions of this chapter. (5) The term ‘‘foreign commerce’’ means commerce between the United States, its pos- sessions, or any Territory of the United States, and any foreign country. (6)(a) The term ‘‘district court of the United States’’ means any court exercising the pow- ers of a district court of the United States. (b) Omitted (7) The term— (A) ‘‘Agricultural seeds’’ shall mean grass, forage, and field crop seeds which the Sec- retary of Agriculture finds are used for seed- ing purposes in the United States and which he lists in the rules and regulations pre- scribed under section 1592 of this title. (B) ‘‘Vegetable seeds’’ shall include the seeds of those crops that are or may be grown in gardens or on truck farms and are or may be generally known and sold under the name of vegetable seeds. (8) For the purpose of subchapter II, the term ‘‘weed seeds’’ means the seeds or bulblets of plants recognized as weeds either by the law or rules and regulations of— (A) The State into which the seed is of- fered for transportation, or transported; or (B) Puerto Rico, Guam, or District of Co- lumbia into which transported, or District of Columbia in which sold. (9)(A) For the purpose of subchapter II, the term ‘‘noxious-weed seeds’’ means the seeds or bulblets of plants recognized as noxious— (i) by the law or rules and regulations of the State into which the seed is offered for transportation, or transported; (ii) by the law or rules and regulations of Puerto Rico, Guam, or the District of Co- lumbia, into which transported, or District of Columbia in which sold; or (iii) by the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture under this chapter, when after investigation he shall determine that a weed is noxious in the United States or in any specifically designated area there- of. (B) For the purpose of subchapter III, the term ‘‘noxious-weed seeds’’ means the seeds of Lepidium draba L., Lepidium repens (Schrenk) Boiss., Hymenophysa pubescens C. A., Mey., white top; Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop., Canada thistle; Cuscuta spp., dodder; Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv., quackgrass; Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers., Johnson grass; Convolvulus arvensis L., bindweed; Centaurea picris Pall., Russian knapweed; Sonchus arvensis L., perennial sowthistle; Euphorbia esula L., leafy spurge; and seeds or bulblets of any other kinds which after investigation the