Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102
§613 Termination Date; Investigations and Reports
Title 7 › CHAPTER 26 — AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT › SUBCHAPTER III — COMMODITY BENEFITS › § 613
Summary
The chapter ends when the President announces the national agricultural emergency is over. Until then, the President may cancel parts of the chapter for any basic farm commodity that he finds are not needed. For sugar beets and sugarcane, the taxes and the powers of the President and the Secretary of Agriculture stop on December 31, 1937, unless the chapter ends earlier. The Secretary must investigate and report to the President as needed.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §613
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This chapter shall cease to be in effect whenever the President finds and proclaims that the national economic emergency in relation to agriculture has been ended; and pending such time the President shall by proclamation terminate with respect to any basic agricultural commodity such provisions of this chapter as he finds are not requisite to carrying out the declared policy with respect to such commodity. In the case of sugar beets and sugarcane, the taxes provided by this chapter shall cease to be in effect, and the powers vested in the President or in the Secretary of Agriculture shall terminate on December 31, 1937 unless this chapter ceases to be in effect at an earlier date, as hereinabove provided. The Secretary of Agriculture shall make such investigations and reports thereon to the President as may be necessary to aid him in executing this section.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1935—Act Aug. 24, 1935, substituted “on
December 31, 1937” for “at the end of three years after the adoption of this amendment”. 1934—Act
May 9, 1934, inserted second sentence relating to taxes on sugar beets and sugarcane.
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 613
Title 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102