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U.S. Code as of: 01/03/05
Chapter 26 - Notes
            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   Repealed.                                             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.                                             
    612c-4.     Purchase of specialty crops.                          
                  (a)  General purchase authority.                    
                  (b)  Purchase authority.                            
                  (c)  Definitions.                                   
    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.        Repealed.                                             
    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.                                              
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