7 U.S.C. § 2482
How issued
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
Cite this
- Citation
- 7 U.S.C. § 2482, How issued, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/430382
- Permanent ID
ys:prov:430382@1- SHA-256
d2b386e2790e75426a2c0bcb1abad58bb440080a4f3a441ad19e9e2b4c449bdc
The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.
Full text
A certificate of plant variety protection shall be issued in the name of the United States of America under the seal of the Plant Variety Protection Office, and shall be signed by the Secretary or have the signature of the Secretary placed thereon, and shall be recorded in the Plant Variety Protection Office.
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 The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.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