---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 97.103"
title: "7"
number: "97.103"
heading: "Issuance of a certificate."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/97.103"
---

# §97.103. Issuance of a certificate.

- (a) After the notice of allowance has been issued and the applicant has clearly specified whether or not the variety shall be sold by variety name only as a class of certified seed, the certificate shall be promptly issued. Once an election is made and a certificate issued specifying that seed of the variety shall be sold by variety name only as a class of certified seed, no waiver of such rights shall be permitted by amendment of the certificate.
- (b) The certificate shall be delivered or mailed to the owner.

## Notes

### Amendments

[58 FR 42435, Aug. 9, 1993, as amended at 85 FR 432, Jan. 6, 2020]

### Authority

Authority: Plant Variety Protection Act, as amended, 7 U.S.C. 2321 et seq.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 42435, Aug. 9, 1993, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[58 FR 42435, Aug. 9, 1993, as amended at 85 FR 432, Jan. 6, 2020]