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§1520 Producer eligibility

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 36— - CROP INSURANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE › § 1520

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Producers must be allowed insurance: catastrophic coverage requires being a "person" per Secretary; other plans require age 18 and genuine insurable interest in the crop as owner-operator/landlord/tenant/sharecropper.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1520

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Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, a producer shall not be denied insurance under this subchapter if—
(1)for purposes of catastrophic risk protection coverage, the producer is a “person” (as defined by the Secretary); and
(2)for purposes of any other plan of insurance, the producer is 18 years of age and has a bona fide insurable interest in a crop as an owner-operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

Amendments

to this section. The

Amendments

by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Amendments

2008—Pub. L. 110–246, § 12033(c)(2)(B), substituted “this subchapter” for “this chapter” in two places in introductory provisions. 1994—Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Producer eligibility” for “Persons under twenty-one years of age” in section catchline and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be denied insurance under this chapter solely on the ground that he is under twenty-one years of age if such person is (1) over eighteen years of age, and (2) has a bona fide insurable interest in a crop as an owner-operator, landlord, tenant or sharecropper: Provided, That any such person who enters into a Federal Crop Insurance contract shall be subject to the same legal liability and have the same legal rights with respect to such contract as any person over the age of twenty-one years.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 8701 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1994 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 103–354 effective Oct. 13, 1994, and applicable to provision of crop insurance under Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) beginning with 1995 crop year, with such Act, as in effect on the day before Oct. 13, 1994, to continue to apply with respect to 1994 crop year, see section 120 of Pub. L. 103–354, set out as a note under section 1502 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1520

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73