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title: "7 U.S.C. § 2355"
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# 7 U.S.C. § 2355 - Effect of defective execution

## Text

Any document to be filed in the Plant Variety Protection Office and which is required by any law or regulation to be executed in a specified manner may be provisionally accepted by the Secretary despite a defective execution, provided a properly executed document is submitted within such time as may be prescribed.

(Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 25, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1545.)