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[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC1594]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1594. Prohibition against alterations

    No person shall detach, alter, deface, or destroy any label provided 
for in this chapter or the rules and regulations made and promulgated 
thereunder by the Secretary of Agriculture, or alter or substitute seed 
in a manner that may defeat the purpose of this chapter.

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, Sec. 404, 53 Stat. 1286.)


                             Effective Date

    See section 1610 of this title.