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[CITE: 7USC2105]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                CHAPTER 53--COTTON RESEARCH AND PROMOTION
 
Sec. 2105. Permissive terms and conditions in orders

    Orders issued pursuant to this chapter shall contain one or more of 
the following terms and conditions, and except as provided in section 
2106 of this title, no others.
    (a) Providing for the establishment, issuance, effectuation, and 
administration of appropriate plans or projects for the advertising and 
sales promotion of cotton and its products and for the disbursement of 
necessary funds for such purposes: Provided, however, That any such plan 
or project shall be directed toward increasing the general demand for 
cotton or its products but no reference to a private brand or trade name 
shall be made if the Secretary determines that such reference will 
result in undue discrimination against the cotton products of other 
persons: And provided further, That no such advertising or sales 
promotion programs shall make use of false or unwarranted claims in 
behalf of cotton or its products or false or unwarranted statements with 
respect to the quality, value, or use of any competing product.
    (b) Providing for establishing and carrying on research and 
development projects and studies with respect to the production, 
ginning, processing, distribution, or utilization of cotton and its 
products, to the end that the marketing and utilization of cotton may be 
encouraged, expanded, improved, or made more efficient, and for the 
disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes.
    (c) Providing that handlers or any class of handlers maintain and 
make available for inspection such books and records as may be required 
by the order and for the filing of reports by such handlers at the 
times, in the manner, and having the content prescribed by the order, to 
the end that information and data shall be made available to the Cotton 
Board and to the Secretary which is appropriate or necessary to the 
effectuation, administration, or enforcement of this chapter or of any 
order or regulation issued pursuant to this chapter: Provided, however, 
That all information so obtained shall be kept confidential by all 
officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture and of the 
Cotton Board, and only such information so furnished or acquired as the 
Secretary deems relevant shall be disclosed by them, and then only in a 
suit or administrative hearing brought at the direction, or upon the 
request, of the Secretary of Agriculture, or to which he or any officer 
of the United States is a party, and involving the order with reference 
to which the information so to be disclosed was furnished or acquired. 
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit (1) the issuance of 
general statements based upon the reports of a number of handlers 
subject to an order, which statements do not identify the information 
furnished by any person, or (2) the publication by direction of the 
Secretary, of the name of any person violating any order, together with 
a statement of the particular provisions of the order violated by such 
person. Any such officer or employee violating the provisions of this 
subsection shall upon conviction be subject to a fine of not more than 
$1,000 or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or to both, and 
shall be removed from office.
    (d) Terms and conditions incidental to and not inconsistent with the 
terms and conditions specified in this chapter and necessary to 
effectuate the other provisions of such order.

(Pub. L. 89-502, Sec. 6, July 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 280.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2106, 2116 of this title.
