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[CITE: 7USC1315]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 35--AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING 
                   QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES
 
                        Part B--Marketing Quotas
 
                  subpart i--marketing quotas--tobacco
 
Sec. 1315. Burley tobacco acreage allotments

    The farm acreage allotment for burley tobacco for any year shall not 
be less than the smallest of (1) the allotment established for the farm 
for the immediately preceding year, (2) five-tenths of an acre, or (3) 
10 per centum of the cropland: Provided, however, That no allotment of 
seven-tenths of an acre or less shall be reduced more than one-tenth of 
an acre in any one year. The additional acreage required under this 
section shall be in addition to the State acreage allotments and the 
production on such acreage shall be in addition to the national 
marketing quota.

(July 12, 1952, ch. 709, 66 Stat. 597; Mar. 31, 1955, ch. 21, Sec. 2, 69 
Stat. 24.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as a part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act 
of 1938 which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1955--Act Mar. 31, 1955, amended section generally by reducing 
minimum acreage allotments.


                    Effective Date of 1955 Amendment

    Act Mar. 31, 1955, provided that the amendment made by that act is 
effective for the 1956 and subsequent crops of burley tobacco.


  Acreage Allotment Basis of Quota; Amendment of Clause (1) and Proviso

    Part of section 317(h) of act Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, as 
added by Pub. L. 89-12, Sec. 1, Apr. 16, 1965, 79 Stat. 72, and 
classified as part of section 1314c(h) of this title, provided that: 
``Whenever the Secretary proclaims a quota on an acreage allotment basis 
(in lieu of on an acreage poundage basis)--
        ``(A) the minimum acreage allotment for Burley tobacco for any 
    farm shall be determined under the provisions of the Act of July 12, 
    1952, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1315) instead of under the preceding 
    provisions of this subsection [section 1314c(h) of this title];
        ``(B) clause (1) of the Act of July 12, 1952 [this section], 
    shall for such purpose read as follows: `(1) the allotment 
    established for the farm for the last preceding year for which a 
    quota was proclaimed on an acreage allotment basis'; and
        ``(C) the proviso of that Act [this section] shall for such 
    purpose read as follows: `Provided, however, That no allotment of 
    seven-tenths of an acre or less shall be reduced more than one-tenth 
    of an acre below the allotment established for the farm for the last 
    preceding year for which a quota was proclaimed on an acreage 
    allotment basis'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1314c of this title.
