---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 4817"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "4817"
heading: "Preemption"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/4817"
units:
  - "Chapter 79 — Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information"
---

# §4817. Preemption

- (a) **Promotion and consumer education; funds from pork producers—** This chapter is intended to occupy the field of—
  - (1) [promotion](/usc/7/4802.md?p=12) and consumer education involving [pork](/usc/7/4802.md?p=9) and [pork products](/usc/7/4802.md?p=10); and
  - (2) obtaining funds therefor from [pork](/usc/7/4802.md?p=9) [producers](/usc/7/4802.md?p=11).
- (b) **Additional or different State regulation prohibited—** The regulation of such activity (other than a regulation or requirement relating to a matter of public health or the provision of [State](/usc/7/4802.md?p=15) or local funds for such activity) that is in addition to or different from this chapter may not be imposed by a [State](/usc/7/4802.md?p=15).
- (c) **Application of section—** This section shall apply only during a period beginning on the date of the commencement of the collection of assessments under [section 4809 of this title](/usc/7/4809.md) and ending on the date of the termination of the collection of assessments under section [4811(a)(3)](/usc/7/4811.md) or [4811(b)(1)(B)](/usc/7/4811.md)[^1] of this title.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “section 4811(b)(2)(A) or 4812(b)(1)(B)”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–198, title XVI, § 1628, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1621.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1986, see section 1631 of Pub. L. 99–198, set out as a note under section 4801 of this title.