7 U.S.C. § 2568
False marking; cease and desist orders
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
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- 7 U.S.C. § 2568, False marking; cease and desist orders, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/430409
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Each of the following acts, if performed in connection with the sale, offering for sale, or advertising of sexually or asexually reproducible plant material or tubers or parts of tubers, is prohibited, and the Secretary may, if the Secretary determines after an opportunity for hearing that the act is being so performed, issue an order to cease and desist, said order being binding unless appealed under section 2461 of this title:
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 The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- A bill to amend the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 U.S.C., 2321 et. seq.) to clarify its provisions, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1994House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018