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§672 Agreements; licenses, regulations, programs, etc., unaffected

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 26A— - AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AGREEMENTS › § 672

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Keeps any marketing agreement, license, order, rule, or action the Secretary of Agriculture made under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Those agreements and actions stay valid and are approved. Any program that was running under the Agricultural Adjustment Act on January 1, 1950 will keep running without needing changes. The Secretary may continue those programs only to create and keep orderly marketing conditions that help carry out the goals in section 2 or 8c(18) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §672

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(a)Nothing in this Act shall be construed as invalidating any marketing agreement, license, or order, or any regulation relating to, or any provision of, or any act of the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with, any such agreement, license, or order which has been executed, issued, approved, or done under the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.], or any amendment thereof, but such marketing agreements, licenses, orders, regulations, provisions, and acts are expressly ratified, legalized, and confirmed.
(b)Any program in effect under the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.], as reenacted and amended by this Act, on January 1, 1950, shall continue in effect without the necessity for any amendatory action relative to such program, but any such program shall be continued in operation by the Secretary of Agriculture only to establish and maintain such orderly marketing conditions as will tend to effectuate the declared purpose set out in section 2 or 8c(18) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 602 or 608c(18)], as reenacted and amended by this Act.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act
June 3, 1937, ch. 296, 50 Stat. 246, known as the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. The Agricultural Adjustment Act, referred to in text, is title I of act
May 12, 1933, ch. 25, 48 Stat. 31, which is classified generally to chapter 26 (§ 601 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 601 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1948—Act July 3, 1948, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1948 AmendmentAmendment by act
July 3, 1948, effective Jan. 1, 1950, see section 303 of act
July 3, 1948, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 672

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73