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title: "7 U.S.C. § 1610"
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title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
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# 7 U.S.C. § 1610 - Effective date

## Text

This chapter shall take effect as follows: As to agricultural seeds, and the importation of vegetable seeds, on the one hundred and eightieth day after August 9, 1939; as to vegetable seeds in interstate commerce, one year after August 9, 1939; and as to sections 1591 to 1593 of this title, on August 9, 1939.

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 420, 53 Stat. 1290.)