[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC1562]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 37--SEEDS
SUBCHAPTER I--DEFINITIONS
Sec. 1562. False representations as certified seed; required
provisions
Any labeling, advertisement, or other representation subject to this
chapter which represents that any seed is certified seed or any class
thereof shall be deemed to be false in this respect unless (a) it has
been determined by a seed certifying agency that such seed conformed to
standards of genetic purity and identity as to kind or variety, and is
in compliance with the rules and regulations of such agency pertaining
to such seed; and (b) the seed bears an official label issued for such
seed by a seed certifying agency certifying that the seed is of a
specified class and a specified kind or variety. Seed of a variety for
which a certificate of plant variety protection under the Plant Variety
Protection Act [7 U.S.C. 2321 et seq.] specifies sale only as a class of
certified seed shall be certified only when
(1) the basic seed from which the variety was produced furnished
by authority of the owner of the variety if the certification is
made during the term of protection, and
(2) it conforms to the number of generations designated by the
certificate, if the certificate contains such a designation.
(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title I, Sec. 102, as added Pub. L. 85-581,
Sec. 4, Aug. 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 476; amended Pub. L. 91-89, Sec. 2, Oct.
17, 1969, 83 Stat. 134; Pub. L. 91-577, title III, Sec. 142(b), Dec. 24,
1970, 84 Stat. 1558.)
