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[CITE: 7USC1575]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
 
                   SUBCHAPTER II--INTERSTATE COMMERCE
 
Sec. 1575. False advertising

    It shall be unlawful for any person to disseminate, or cause to be 
disseminated, any false advertisement concerning seed, by the United 
States mails, or in interstate or foreign commerce, in any manner or by 
any means, including radio broadcasts: Provided, however, That no 
person, advertising agency, or medium for the dissemination of 
advertising, except the person who transported, delivered for 
transportation, sold, or offered for sale seed to which the false 
advertisement relates, shall be liable under this section by reason of 
disseminating or causing to be disseminated any false advertisement, 
unless he or it has refused, on the request of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, to furnish the Secretary the name and post-office address 
of the person, or advertising agency, residing in the United States, who 
caused, directly or indirectly, the dissemination of such advertisement.

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title II, Sec. 205, 53 Stat. 1282.)


                             Effective Date

    See section 1610 of this title.
