---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1572"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1572"
heading: "Records"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1572"
units:
  - "Chapter 37 — Seeds"
  - "Subchapter II — Interstate Commerce"
---

# §1572. Records


All [persons](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-2) transporting, or delivering for transportation, in [interstate commerce](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-3), agricultural seeds shall keep for a period of three years a complete record of [origin](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-10), treatment, [germination](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-14), and purity of each lot of such agricultural seeds, and all [persons](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-2) transporting, or delivering for transportation, in [interstate commerce](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-3), vegetable seeds shall keep for a period of three years a complete record of treatment, [germination](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-14) and [variety](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-12) of such vegetable seeds. The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture, or his duly authorized agents, shall have the right to inspect such records for the purpose of the effective administration of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title II, § 202, 53 Stat. 1281; Pub. L. 85–581, § 9, Aug. 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 477; Pub. L. 89–686, § 11, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 978.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1966—Pub. L. 89–686 required record of treatment of agricultural and vegetable seeds.

1958—Pub. L. 85–581 required keeping of records of vegetable seeds.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

See section 1610 of this title.