---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2323"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2323"
heading: "Organization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2323"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection"
  - "Subchapter I — Plant Variety Protection Office"
  - "Part A — Organization and Publications"
---

# §2323. Organization


The organization of the Plant [Variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) Protection Office shall, except as provided herein, be determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture (hereinafter called the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2)). The office shall devote itself substantially exclusively to the administration of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 3, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1542.)