Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73

§6810 Confidentiality

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 97— - FRESH CUT FLOWERS AND FRESH CUT GREENS PROMOTION AND INFORMATION › § 6810

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

How a person voted in a referendum must be kept secret. Anyone who knowingly breaks that secrecy or the confidentiality terms of an order under this law can be fined $1,000 to $10,000, jailed for up to 1 year, or both. If the person is an officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture or the PromoFlor Council, they must be removed from office. Information collected under this law may not be given to any federal agency or official except to carry out this law or for investigations or enforcement needed to do that. Nothing in the law allows withholding information from Congress.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §6810

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)No information on how a person voted in a referendum conducted under this chapter shall be made public.

(b)Any person who knowingly violates subsection (a) or the confidentiality terms of an order, as described in section 6804(j)(2) of this title, shall be subject to a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000 or to imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or both. If the person is an officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture or the PromoFlor Council, the person shall be removed from office.

(c)No information obtained under this chapter may be made available to any agency or officer of the Federal Government for any purpose other than the implementation of this chapter or an investigatory or enforcement action necessary for the implementation of this chapter.

(d)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the withholding of information from Congress.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 6810

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73