Title 7AgricultureRelease 119-73

§613 Termination date; investigations and reports

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 26— - AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - COMMODITY BENEFITS › § 613

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Chapter ends when the President declares the national agricultural emergency over; until then he can end parts for any basic farm commodity he finds unnecessary. For sugar beets and sugarcane, taxes and the President's and Secretary's powers stop on December 31, 1937, unless ended sooner. The Secretary must investigate and report to the President.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §613

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This chapter shall cease to be in effect whenever the President finds and proclaims that the national economic emergency in relation to agriculture has been ended; and pending such time the President shall by proclamation terminate with respect to any basic agricultural commodity such provisions of this chapter as he finds are not requisite to carrying out the declared policy with respect to such commodity. In the case of sugar beets and sugarcane, the taxes provided by this chapter shall cease to be in effect, and the powers vested in the President or in the Secretary of Agriculture shall terminate on December 31, 1937 unless this chapter ceases to be in effect at an earlier date, as hereinabove provided. The Secretary of Agriculture shall make such investigations and reports thereon to the President as may be necessary to aid him in executing this section.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1935—Act Aug. 24, 1935, substituted “on
December 31, 1937” for “at the end of three years after the adoption of this amendment”. 1934—Act
May 9, 1934, inserted second sentence relating to taxes on sugar beets and sugarcane.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 613

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73