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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§4907 Permissive Terms in Plans

Title 7 › Chapter 80— WATERMELON RESEARCH AND PROMOTION › § 4907

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Plans under this chapter may include one or more of the following options, and no others except as allowed by section 4906. The plan can let the Board exempt watermelons used for nonfood purposes and require safeguards against misuse. It can set different handler payment and reporting schedules to match different marketing and production areas (see sections 4906 and 4908). The plan can fund advertising and promotion to raise overall demand (must follow section 4906(g)). It can fund research and development to improve marketing and use. The plan can build reserve funds from assessments to keep programs running in low‑income years, but the reserve cannot exceed the amount budgeted for two years' operation. With the Secretary’s approval, funds may be used to develop foreign markets. The plan may also include other reasonable terms that do not conflict with this chapter and that help carry out these provisions.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §4907

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(a)Any plan issued under this chapter may contain one or more of the terms and provisions described in this section, but except as provided in section 4906 of this title no others.
(b)The plan may provide for the exemption, from the provisions of the plan, of watermelons used for nonfood uses, and authority for the Board to establish satisfactory safeguards against improper use of such exemption.
(c)The plan may provide for the designation of different handler payment and reporting schedules with respect to assessments, as provided for in section 4906 and 4908 of this title, to recognize differences in marketing practices and procedures used in different production areas.
(d)The plan may provide for the establishment, issuance, effectuation, and administration of appropriate programs or projects for the advertising and other sales promotion of watermelons and for the disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes. Any such program or project shall be directed toward increasing the general demand for watermelons, and promotional activities shall comply with the provisions of section 4906(g) of this title.
(e)The plan may provide for establishing and carrying out research and development projects and studies to the end that the marketing and use of watermelons may be encouraged, expanded, improved, or made more efficient, and for the disbursement of necessary funds for such purposes.
(f)The plan may provide authority for the accumulation of reserve funds from assessments collected under this chapter, to permit an effective and continuous coordinated program of research, development, advertising, and promotion in years when watermelon production and assessment income may be reduced, except that the total reserve fund may not exceed the amount budgeted for two years operation.
(g)The plan may provide for the use of funds from assessments collected under this chapter, with the approval of the Secretary, for the development and expansion of sales of watermelons in foreign markets.
(h)The plan may contain terms and conditions incidental to and not inconsistent with the terms and conditions specified in this chapter and necessary to effectuate the other provisions of the plan.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 4907

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60