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[CITE: 7USC1597]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1597. Agent's acts as binding principal

    When construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the 
act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting 
for or employed by any person, partnership, corporation, company, 
society, or association, shall in every case be also deemed to be the 
act, omission, or failure of such person, partnership, corporation, 
company, society, or association, as well as that of the person 
employed.

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, Sec. 407, 53 Stat. 1286.)


                             Effective Date

    See section 1610 of this title.
