Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102
§2614 Notice and Hearings
Title 7 › CHAPTER 58 — POTATO RESEARCH AND PROMOTION › § 2614
Summary
When people present enough evidence, or the Secretary believes a plan will help carry out the chapter’s policy, the Secretary must give notice and offer a hearing. Any interested person, including the Secretary, can ask for that hearing if their request includes a proposed plan.
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Title 7, §2614
Agriculture, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
When sufficient evidence is presented to the Secretary by interested persons, or whenever the Secretary has reason to believe that a plan will tend to effectuate the declared policy of this chapter, he shall give due notice and opportunity for a hearing upon a proposed plan. Such hearing may be requested by any interested person, including the Secretary, when the request for such hearing is accompanied by a proposal for a plan.
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Amendments
1990—Pub. L. 101–624 substituted “interested persons” for “potato producers” in first sentence and “by any interested person, including the Secretary” for “by potato producers or by any other interested person or persons, including the Secretary” in second sentence.
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 2614
Title 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102