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[CITE: 7USC672]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 26A--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AGREEMENTS
 
Sec. 672. Agreements; licenses, regulations, programs, etc., 
        unaffected
        
    (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as invalidating any 
marketing agreement, license, or order, or any regulation relating to, 
or any provision of, or any act of the Secretary of Agriculture in 
connection with, any such agreement, license, or order which has been 
executed, issued, approved, or done under the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act [7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.], or any amendment thereof, but such marketing 
agreements, licenses, orders, regulations, provisions, and acts are 
expressly ratified, legalized, and confirmed.
    (b) Any program in effect under the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 
U.S.C. 601 et seq.], as reenacted and amended by this Act, on January 1, 
1950, shall continue in effect without the necessity for any amendatory 
action relative to such program, but any such program shall be continued 
in operation by the Secretary of Agriculture only to establish and 
maintain such orderly marketing conditions as will tend to effectuate 
the declared purpose set out in section 2 or 8c(18) of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 602 or 608c(18)], as reenacted and amended by 
this Act.

(June 3, 1937, ch. 296, Sec. 4, 50 Stat. 249; July 3, 1948, ch. 827, 
title III, Sec. 302(e), 62 Stat. 1258.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act June 3, 1937, ch. 296, 50 
Stat. 246, as amended, known as the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act 
of 1937. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Tables.
    The Agricultural Adjustment Act, referred to in text, is title I of 
act May 12, 1933, ch. 25, 48 Stat. 31, as amended, which is classified 
generally to chapter 26 (Sec. 601 et seq.) of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 601 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1948--Act July 3, 1948, designated existing provisions as subsec. 
(a) and added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1948 Amendment

    Amendment by act July 3, 1948, effective Jan. 1, 1950, see section 
303 of act July 3, 1948, set out as a note under section 1301 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1392 of this title.
