---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2353"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2353"
heading: "Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office cases"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2353"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection"
  - "Subchapter I — Plant Variety Protection Office"
  - "Part B — Legal Provisions as to the Plant Variety Protection Office"
---

# §2353. Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office cases


The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may establish regulations for taking affidavits, depositions, and other evidence required in cases before the Plant [Variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) Protection Office. Any officer authorized by law to take depositions to be used in the courts of the [United States](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-9), or of the [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) where the officer resides, may take such affidavits and depositions, and swear the witnesses. If any [person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) acts as a hearing officer by authority of the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2), the [person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) shall have like power.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 23, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1544; Pub. L. 103–349, § 13(c), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3143.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–349 substituted “the officer” for “he” in second sentence and “the person” for “he” in third sentence.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103–349 effective 180 days after Oct. 6, 1994, see section 15 of Pub. L. 103–349, set out as a note under section 2401 of this title.