---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 6810"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "6810"
heading: "Confidentiality"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/6810"
units:
  - "Chapter 97 — Fresh Cut Flowers and Fresh Cut Greens Promotion and Information"
---

# §6810. Confidentiality

- (a) **Prohibition—** No information on how a [person](/usc/7/6802.md?p=6) voted in a referendum conducted under this chapter shall be made public.
- (b) **Penalty—** Any [person](/usc/7/6802.md?p=6) who knowingly violates [subsection (a)](#a) or the confidentiality terms of an [order](/usc/7/6802.md?p=5), as described in [section 6804(j)(2) of this title](/usc/7/6804.md?p=j-2), shall be subject to a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000 or to imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or both. If the [person](/usc/7/6802.md?p=6) is an officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture or the [PromoFlor Council](/usc/7/6802.md?p=7), the [person](/usc/7/6802.md?p=6) shall be removed from office.
- (c) **Additional prohibition—** No information obtained under this chapter may be made available to any agency or officer of the Federal Government for any purpose other than the implementation of this chapter or an investigatory or enforcement action necessary for the implementation of this chapter.
- (d) **Withholding information from Congress prohibited—** Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the withholding of information from Congress.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–190, § 11, Dec. 14, 1993, 107 Stat. 2288.)