---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 97.143"
title: "7"
number: "97.143"
heading: "Certified seed only."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/97.143"
---

# §97.143. Certified seed only.

- (a) Upon filing an application, or amendment thereto, specifying seed of the variety is to be sold by variety name only as a class of certified seed, the owner, or his or her designee, may label containers of seed of the variety substantially as follows: “Unauthorized Propagation Prohibited—U.S. Variety Protection Applied for Specifying That Seed of This Variety Is To Be Sold By Variety Name Only as a Class of Certified Seed.”
- (b) An owner who has received a certificate specifying that a variety is to be sold by variety name only, as a class of certified seed, may label containers of the seed of the variety substantially as follows: “Unauthorized Propagation Prohibited—To Be Sold By Variety Name Only as a Class of Certified Seed—U.S. Protected Variety.”

## Notes

### 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.