7 U.S.C. § 2327
Plant Variety Protection Board
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
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The Secretary shall appoint a Plant Variety Protection Board. The Board shall consist of individuals who are experts in various areas of varietal development covered by this chapter. Membership of the Board shall include farmer representation and shall be drawn approximately equally from the private or seed industry sector and from the sector of government or the public. The Secretary or the designee of the Secretary shall act as chairperson of the Board without voting rights except in the case of ties.
The functions of the Plant Variety Protection Board shall include:
The members of the Plant Variety Protection Board shall serve without compensation except for standard government reimbursable expenses.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1994House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally