Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§1572 Records
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 37— - SEEDS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - INTERSTATE COMMERCE › § 1572
Summary
People shipping seeds across state lines must keep records for three years: for agricultural seeds, each lot’s origin, treatment, germination, and purity; for vegetable seeds, treatment, germination, and variety. The Secretary of Agriculture or agents may inspect those records.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §1572
Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
All persons transporting, or delivering for transportation, in interstate commerce, agricultural seeds shall keep for a period of three years a complete record of origin, treatment, germination, and purity of each lot of such agricultural seeds, and all persons transporting, or delivering for transportation, in interstate commerce, vegetable seeds shall keep for a period of three years a complete record of treatment, germination and variety of such vegetable seeds. The Secretary of Agriculture, or his duly authorized agents, shall have the right to inspect such records for the purpose of the effective administration of this chapter.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1966—Pub. L. 89–686 required record of treatment of agricultural and vegetable seeds. 1958—Pub. L. 85–581 required keeping of records of vegetable seeds.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
See section 1610 of this title.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
7 U.S.C. § 1572
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73