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[CITE: 7USC1572]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
 
                   SUBCHAPTER II--INTERSTATE COMMERCE
 
Sec. 1572. Records

    All persons transporting, or delivering for transportation, in 
interstate commerce, agricultural seeds shall keep for a period of three 
years a complete record of origin, treatment, germination, and purity of 
each lot of such agricultural seeds, and all persons transporting, or 
delivering for transportation, in interstate commerce, vegetable seeds 
shall keep for a period of three years a complete record of treatment, 
germination and variety of such vegetable seeds. The Secretary of 
Agriculture, or his duly authorized agents, shall have the right to 
inspect such records for the purpose of the effective administration of 
this chapter.

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title II, Sec. 202, 53 Stat. 1281; Pub. L. 85-
581, Sec. 9, Aug. 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 477; Pub. L. 89-686, Sec. 11, Oct. 
15, 1966, 80 Stat. 978.)


                               Amendments

    1966--Pub. L. 89-686 required record of treatment of agricultural 
and vegetable seeds.
    1958--Pub. L. 85-581 required keeping of records of vegetable seeds.


                             Effective Date

    See section 1610 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1573 of this title.
