§2613 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must, under the chapter’s rules, issue and update orders for potato handlers and importers. The Secretary can allow collecting fees on potatoes handled or imported and let those funds pay for research, development, advertising, and promotion as the chapter permits. Each order is called a “plan.” Plans cover potatoes grown in the 50 States and can also cover potatoes from other countries if importers are included and the potatoes are brought into the United States.

Title 7, §2613

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To effectuate the declared policy of this chapter, the Secretary shall, subject to the provisions of this chapter, issue and from time to time amend, orders applicable to handlers and importers and shall have authority to issue orders authorizing the collection of assessments on potatoes handled or imported under the provisions of this chapter, and to authorize the use of such funds to provide research, development, advertising, and promotion of potatoes in a manner prescribed in this chapter. Any order issued by the Secretary under this chapter shall hereinafter in this chapter be referred to as a “plan”. Any such plan shall be applicable to potatoes produced in the 50 States of the United States and in foreign countries, if importers are subject to a plan and such potatoes are imported into the United States.

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1990—Pub. L. 101–624 substituted “handlers and importers” for “persons engaged in the handling of potatoes (hereinafter referred to as handlers)”, inserted “or imported”, substituted “50” for “forty-eight contiguous”, and inserted before period at end “and in foreign countries, if importers are subject to a plan and such potatoes are imported into the United States”.

§2613 Authority for Issuance and Amendment of Plan

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Title 7, §2613

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