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# 2 U.S.C. § 2147 - Plant material exchanges

## Text

On and after July 8, 1935, plant material exchanges may be made with botanic gardens, institutions, municipal parks, and gardens.

(July 8, 1935, ch. 374, 49 Stat. 471.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was classified to section 217a of former Title 40, prior to the enactment of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, § 1, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062. Section is based on par. under heading “BOTANIC GARDEN” in act of July 8, 1935, known as the “Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1936”.