7 U.S.C. § 672: Agreements; licenses…

Summary

Keeps valid any marketing agreements, licenses, orders, regulations, or actions the Secretary of Agriculture made under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Those past actions are officially confirmed as legal. Any program that was in effect under the Agricultural Adjustment Act on January 1, 1950 stays in force without needing new approval. The Secretary may continue those programs only to create and keep orderly marketing conditions that carry out the goals in section 2 or section 8c(18).

Title 7, §672

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(a)Nothing in this Act shall be construed as invalidating any marketing agreement, license, or order, or any regulation relating to, or any provision of, or any act of the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with, any such agreement, license, or order which has been executed, issued, approved, or done under the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.], or any amendment thereof, but such marketing agreements, licenses, orders, regulations, provisions, and acts are expressly ratified, legalized, and confirmed.

(b)Any program in effect under the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.], as reenacted and amended by this Act, on January 1, 1950, shall continue in effect without the necessity for any amendatory action relative to such program, but any such program shall be continued in operation by the Secretary of Agriculture only to establish and maintain such orderly marketing conditions as will tend to effectuate the declared purpose set out in section 2 or 8c(18) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act [7 U.S.C. 602 or 608c(18)], as reenacted and amended by this Act.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act

June 3, 1937, ch. 296, 50 Stat. 246, known as the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. The Agricultural Adjustment Act, referred to in text, is title I of act

May 12, 1933, ch. 25, 48 Stat. 31, which is classified generally to chapter 26 (§ 601 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 601 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1948—Act July 3, 1948, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1948 AmendmentAmendment by act

July 3, 1948, effective Jan. 1, 1950, see section 303 of act

July 3, 1948, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.

§672 Agreements; Licenses, Regulations, Programs, Etc., Unaffected