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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§3411 Suspension and Termination of Orders

Title 7 › Chapter 65— WHEAT AND WHEAT FOODS RESEARCH AND NUTRITION EDUCATION › § 3411

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must stop or pause any order or part of an order if it blocks or does not help the law’s goals. The Secretary can hold a vote of the covered product manufacturers anytime, and must hold one if 10 percent or more of those manufacturers ask. If a majority of the manufacturers who vote approve ending or pausing the order, the Secretary must do so within six months. The majority can be based on the number of voting manufacturers active in a period the Secretary sets, or on those voters who made more than 50 percent of the processed wheat in all products made by the voters during that period. A suspension or ending of an order is not treated as an order under the law.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §3411

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary shall, whenever he finds that any order issued under this chapter, or any provision thereof, obstructs or does not tend to effectuate the declared policy of this chapter, terminate or suspend the operation of such order or such provision thereof.
(b)The Secretary may conduct a referendum at any time, and shall hold a referendum on request of 10 per centum or more of the number of end product manufacturers subject to the order, to determine whether such manufacturers favor the termination or suspension of the order, and the Secretary shall suspend or terminate such order within six months after the Secretary determines that suspension or termination of the order is approved or favored by a majority of the end product manufacturers voting in such referendum who, during a representative period determined by the Secretary, have been engaged in the manufacture of end products or by end product manufacturers who produced end products containing more than 50 per centum of the total processed wheat contained in all end products manufactured during such period by the end product manufacturers voting in the referendum.
(c)The termination or suspension of any order, or any provision thereof, shall not be considered an order within the meaning of this chapter.

Legislative History

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Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95–113, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1977 Amendment note under section 1307 of this title.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 3411

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60