Fabio
00a184bb3c
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>
2.8 KiB
type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
| type | title | description | jurisdiction | corpus | kind | title_number | title_name | chapter_number | chapter_name | section | citation | status | release_point | release_date | source | source_url | source_identifier | source_file | source_hash | raw_snapshot_hash | text_hash | retrieved_at | confidence | tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LegalText | 7 U.S.C. § 2327 | Plant Variety Protection Board | us | united_states_code | code_section | 7 | AGRICULTURE | 57 | PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION | 2327 | 7 U.S.C. § 2327 | current | 119-100 | 2026-06-26 | official | https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc07@119-100.zip | /us/usc/t7/s2327 | data/legal/raw/us/code/title-07/usc07.xml | 702d7d6fe37b761e9cb721334a78d6331e5385104bbf5b4cd1e1aebdda300ade | 50edab1679a711653797362c0aeb8f2273303fe473fb7fa16df1ee76bdd6e984 | fcd5a7dad35b36115f91f241e4e582f4d0dea0caa21da14865112d42f54e353e | 2026-07-04 | official |
|
7 U.S.C. § 2327 - Plant Variety Protection Board
Text
(a) Appointment The Secretary shall appoint a Plant Variety Protection Board. The Board shall consist of individuals who are experts in various areas of varietal development covered by this chapter. Membership of the Board shall include farmer representation and shall be drawn approximately equally from the private or seed industry sector and from the sector of government or the public. The Secretary or the designee of the Secretary shall act as chairperson of the Board without voting rights except in the case of ties.
(b) Functions of Board The functions of the Plant Variety Protection Board shall include:
(1) Advising the Secretary concerning the adoption of Rules and Regulations to facilitate the proper administration of this chapter;
(2) Making advisory decisions on all appeals from the examiner. The Board shall determine whether to act as a full Board or by panels it selects; and whether to review advisory decisions made by a panel. For service on such appeals, the Board may select, as temporary members, experts in the area to which the particular appeal relates; and
(3) Advising the Secretary on all questions under section 2404 of this title.
(c) Compensation of Board The members of the Plant Variety Protection Board shall serve without compensation except for standard government reimbursable expenses.
(Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 7, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1543; Pub. L. 103–349, § 13(a), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3142.)
Notes
Editorial Notes
Amendments1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–349 substituted “the designee of the Secretary shall act as chairperson” for “his designee shall act as chairman” in last sentence.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1994 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 103–349 effective 180 days after Oct. 6, 1994, see section 15 of Pub. L. 103–349, set out as a note under section 2401 of this title.