---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 672"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "672"
heading: "Agreements; licenses, regulations, programs, etc., unaffected"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/672"
units:
  - "Chapter 26A — Agricultural Marketing Agreements"
---

# §672. Agreements; licenses, regulations, programs, etc., unaffected

- (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as invalidating any marketing agreement, license, or order, or any regulation relating to, or any provision of, or any act of the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture in connection with, any such agreement, license, or order which has been executed, issued, approved, or done under the Agricultural Adjustment Act [[7 U.S.C. 601](/usc/7/601.md) et seq.], or any amendment thereof, but such marketing agreements, licenses, orders, regulations, provisions, and acts are expressly ratified, legalized, and confirmed.
- (b) Any program in effect under the Agricultural Adjustment Act [[7 U.S.C. 601](/usc/7/601.md) et seq.], as reenacted and amended by this Act, on January 1, 1950, shall continue in effect without the necessity for any amendatory action relative to such program, but any such program shall be continued in operation by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture only to establish and maintain such orderly marketing conditions as will tend to effectuate the declared purpose set out in section 2 or 8c(18) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act [[7 U.S.C. 602](/usc/7/602.md) or 608c(18)], as reenacted and amended by this Act.

## Source credit

(June 3, 1937, ch. 296, § 4, 50 Stat. 249; July 3, 1948, ch. 827, title III, § 302(e), 62 Stat. 1258.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act June 3, 1937, ch. 296, 50 Stat. 246, known as the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act, referred to in text, is title I of act May 12, 1933, ch. 25, 48 Stat. 31, which is classified generally to chapter 26 (§ 601 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 601 of this title and Tables.

### Amendments

1948—Act July 3, 1948, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1948 Amendment

Amendment by act July 3, 1948, effective Jan. 1, 1950, see section 303 of act July 3, 1948, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.