---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1551"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1551"
heading: "Short title"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1551"
units:
  - "Chapter 37 — Seeds"
---

# §1551. Short title


This chapter may be cited as the “Federal Seed Act.”


## Source credit

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, § 1, 53 Stat. 1275.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

See section 1610 of this title.

### Short Title of 1983 Amendment

Pub. L. 97–439, § 1, Jan. 8, 1983, 96 Stat. 2287, provided that: “This Act [amending sections 1561, 1571, 1581, 1582, 1585, and 1586 of this title and repealing sections 1583 and 1584 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Federal Seed Act Amendments of 1982’.”