7 USC Ch. 26: Front Matter
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CHAPTER 26-AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT
SUBCHAPTER I-DECLARATION OF CONDITIONS AND POLICY
Sec.
601.
Declaration of conditions.
602.
Declaration of policy; establishment of price basing period; marketing standards; orderly supply flow; circumstances for continued regulation.
SUBCHAPTER II-COTTON OPTION CONTRACTS
603.
Government owned cotton; transfer to Secretary of Agriculture; powers of Secretary.
604.
Borrowing money; expenditures; authority of Secretary.
605, 606.
Repealed.
607.
Sale by Secretary; additional options; validation of assignments; publication of information.
SUBCHAPTER III-COMMODITY BENEFITS
608.
Powers of Secretary.
(1)
Investigations; proclamation of findings.
(2)
Agreements for adjustment of acreage or production and for rental or benefit payments.
(3)
Payments by Secretary.
(4)
Additional investigation; suspension of exercise of powers.
(5)
Hearings; notice.
(6)
Commodity in which payment made.
(7)
Additional payments to producers of sugar beets or sugarcane.
(8)
Pledge by rice producer for production credit of right to rental or benefit payments.
(9)
Advances of payments on stored nonperishable commodity.
608–1.
Omitted.
608a.
Enforcement of chapter.
(1)
to (4) Omitted.
(5)
Forfeitures.
(6)
Jurisdiction of district courts.
(7)
Duties of United States attorneys; investigation of violations by Secretary; hearings.
(8)
Cumulative remedies.
(9)
"Person" defined.
608a–1.
Repealed.
608b.
Marketing agreements; exemption from antitrust laws; inspection requirements for handlers not subject to agreements.
608c.
Orders regulating handling of commodity.
(1)
Issuance by Secretary.
(2)
Commodities to which applicable; single commodities and separate agricultural commodities.
(3)
Notice and hearing.
(4)
Finding and issuance of order.
(5)
Milk and its products; terms and conditions of orders.
(6)
Other commodities; terms and conditions of orders.
(7)
Terms common to all orders.
(8)
Orders with marketing agreement.
(9)
Orders with or without marketing agreement.
(10)
Manner of regulation and applicability.
(11)
Regional application.
(12)
Approval of cooperative association as approval of producers.
(13)
Retailer and producer exemption.
(14)
Violation of order; penalty.
(15)
Petition by handler for modification of order or exemption; court review of ruling of Secretary.
(16)
Termination of orders and marketing agreements.
(17)
Provisions applicable to amendments.
(18)
Milk prices.
(19)
Producer or processor referendum for approving order.
608c–1.
Repealed.
608d.
Books and records.
608e.
Repealed.
608e–1.
Import prohibitions on specified foreign produce.
(a)
Import prohibitions on tomatoes, avocadoes, limes, etc.
(b)
Extension of time for marketing order; factors; review.
(c)
Notification of United States Trade Representative of import restrictions; advisement of Secretary of Agriculture.
(d)
Proposed prohibition or regulation; authority of Secretary of Agriculture to proceed.
608f.
Repealed.
609.
Processing tax; methods of computation; rate; what constitutes processing; publicity as to tax to avoid profiteering.
610.
Administration.
(a)
Appointment of officers and employees; impounding appropriations.
(b)
State and local committees or associations of producers; handlers' share of expenses of authority or agency.
(c)
Regulations; penalty for violation.
(d)
Regulations of Secretary of the Treasury.
(e)
Review of official acts.
(f)
Geographical application.
(g)
Officers; dealing or speculating in agricultural products; penalties.
(h)
Adoption of Federal Trade Commission Act; hearings; report of violations to Attorney General.
(i)
Cooperation with State authorities; imparting information.
(j)
Definitions.
611.
"Basic agricultural commodity" defined; exclusion of commodities.
612.
Appropriation; use of revenues; administrative expenses.
612a, 612b. Omitted.
612c.
Appropriation to encourage exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural products.
612c–1.
Authorization for appropriations to increase domestic consumption of surplus farm commodities.
612c–2.
Technical support to exporters and importers of United States agricultural products; scope of support provided by Department of Agriculture.
612c–3.
Repealed.
613.
Termination date; investigations and reports.
613a.
Repealed.
614.
Separability.
615.
Refunds of tax; exemptions from tax; compensating tax; compensating tax on foreign goods; covering into Treasury.
616.
Stock on hand when tax takes effect or terminates.
617.
Refund on goods exported; bond to suspend tax on commodity intended for export.
618.
Existing contracts; imposition of tax on vendee; collection.
619.
Collection of tax; provisions of internal revenue laws applicable; returns.
619a.
Cotton tax, time for payment.
620.
Falsely ascribing deductions or charges to taxes; penalty.
621.
Machinery belting processed from cotton; exemption from tax.
622.
Omitted.
623.
Actions relating to tax; legalization of prior taxes.
(a)
Action to restrain collection of tax or obtain declaratory judgment forbidden.
(b)
Taxes imposed prior to August 24, 1935, legalized and ratified.
(c)
Rental and benefit payments, agreements, and programs made prior to August 24, 1935, legalized and ratified.
624.
Limitation on imports; authority of President.
625.
Review of Burley tobacco imports by Secretary of Agriculture; price-support levels; excessive stocks.
626.
Import inventory.
(a)
Compilation and report on imports.
(b)
Compilation and report on consumption.
(c)
Issuing of data.
627.
Dairy forward pricing pilot program.
(a)
Pilot program required.
(b)
Minimum milk price requirements.
(c)
Milk covered by pilot program.
(d)
Duration.
(e)
Study and report on effect of pilot program.
SUBCHAPTER IV-REFUNDS
641 to 659. Omitted.
Cross References
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, see section 1281 et seq. of this title.
Chapter Referred to in Other Sections
This chapter is referred to in sections 499b–1, 671, 672, 673, 1446, 7271 of this title; title 12 section 1150a; title 16 section 2005b; title 18 section 433; title 41 section 22.