Legal corpus: U.S. Code titles 1–11 from pinned OLRC XML (11,050 sections)

Raw OLRC USLM XML zips @ release 119-100 (retrieved 2026-07-04 via
Atlas depot), ingested with the standard pipeline: raw snapshot ->
per-section OKF markdown -> manifest + checksums. Title 52 untouched.
LegalText: 171 -> 11,221. Titles 12-54 await a clean OLRC retry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-57/section-2356.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "7 U.S.C. § 2356"
+description: "Regulations for practice before the Office"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 7
+title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
+chapter_number: "57"
+chapter_name: "PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION"
+section: "2356"
+citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2356"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc07@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s2356"
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+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 7 U.S.C. § 2356 - Regulations for practice before the Office
+
+## Text
+
+The Secretary shall prescribe regulations governing the admission to practice and conduct of persons representing applicants or other parties before the Plant Variety Protection Office. The Secretary may, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, suspend or exclude, either generally or in any particular case, from further practice before the Office of Plant Variety Protection any person shown to be incompetent or disreputable or guilty of gross misconduct.
+
+(Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 26, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1545.)