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[CITE: 7USC1520]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                       CHAPTER 36--CROP INSURANCE
 
Sec. 1520. Producer eligibility

    Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a producer shall not 
be denied insurance under this chapter if--
        (1) for purposes of catastrophic risk protection coverage, the 
    producer is a ``person'' (as defined by the Secretary); and
        (2) for purposes of any other plan of insurance, the producer is 
    18 years of age and has a bona fide insurable interest in a crop as 
    an owner-operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title V, Sec. 520, as added Pub. L. 92-357, July 
28, 1972, 86 Stat. 501; amended Pub. L. 103-354, title I, Sec. 113, Oct. 
13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3203.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-354 substituted ``Producer eligibility'' for 
``Persons under twenty-one years of age'' in section catchline and 
amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: 
``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be denied 
insurance under this chapter solely on the ground that he is under 
twenty-one years of age if such person is (1) over eighteen years of 
age, and (2) has a bona fide insurable interest in a crop as an owner-
operator, landlord, tenant or sharecropper: Provided, That any such 
person who enters into a Federal Crop Insurance contract shall be 
subject to the same legal liability and have the same legal rights with 
respect to such contract as any person over the age of twenty-one 
years.''


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-354 effective Oct. 13, 1994, and applicable 
to provision of crop insurance under Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) beginning with 1995 crop year, with such Act, as in 
effect on the day before Oct. 13, 1994, to continue to apply with 
respect to 1994 crop year, see section 120 of Pub. L. 103-354, set out 
as a note under section 1502 of this title.
