§155. Importation for scientific purposes permitted

Any class of nursery stock or of any other class of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products of which the importation may be forbidden from any country or locality under the provisions of section 160 of this title may be imported for experimental or scientific purposes by the Department of Agriculture upon such conditions and under such regulations as the said Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe.

(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, §1 [part], 37 Stat. 854 .)

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Agricultural Appropriation Act, 1914, and not as part of the "Plant Quarantine Act" which comprises this chapter.

Transfer of Functions

Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, §1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.