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[CITE: 7USC1592]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1592. Rules and regulations

    (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall make such rules and 
regulations as he may deem necessary for the effective enforcement of 
this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this section.
    (b) The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall make, jointly or severally such rules and regulations as they may 
deem necessary for the effective enforcement of subchapter III of this 
chapter.
    (c) Prior to the promulgation of any rule or regulation under this 
chapter, due notice shall be given by publication in the Federal 
Register of intention to promulgate and the time and place of a public 
hearing to be held with reference thereto, and no rule or regulation may 
be promulgated until after such hearing. Any rule or regulation shall 
become effective on the date fixed in the promulgation, which date shall 
be not less than thirty days after publication in the Federal Register 
and may be amended or revoked in the manner provided for its 
promulgation.

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, Sec. 402, 53 Stat. 1285.)


                             Effective Date

    See section 1610 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1561, 1571, 1573, 1581, 
1582, 1593 of this title.
