---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1610"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1610"
heading: "Effective date"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1610"
units:
  - "Chapter 37 — Seeds"
  - "Subchapter IV — General Provisions"
---

# §1610. Effective date


This chapter shall take effect as follows: As to agricultural seeds, and the importation of vegetable seeds, on the one hundred and eightieth day after August 9, 1939; as to vegetable seeds in [interstate commerce](/usc/7/1561.md?p=a-3), one year after August 9, 1939; and as to sections [1591](/usc/7/1591.md) to [1593](/usc/7/1593.md) of this title, on August 9, 1939.


## Source credit

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 420, 53 Stat. 1290.)