---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 4303"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "4303"
heading: "Floral research and promotion orders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/4303"
units:
  - "Chapter 74 — Floral Research and Consumer Information"
---

# §4303. Floral research and promotion orders


To effectuate the declared policy of this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/7/4302.md?p=1) shall, subject to the provisions of this chapter, issue and, from time to time, may amend orders applicable to [persons](/usc/7/4302.md?p=2) engaged in production, sale, importation, or handling of [flowers and plants](/usc/7/4302.md?p=7). Such orders shall be applicable to all production or [marketing](/usc/7/4302.md?p=12) areas, or both, in the [United States](/usc/7/4302.md?p=8).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–98, title XVII, § 1704, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1350.)