1999 US Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 61 - NOXIOUS WEEDS
Sec. 2801 - Congressional findings
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 7 - AGRICULTURE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 7 - AGRICULTURE CHAPTER 61 - NOXIOUS WEEDS Sec. 2801 - Congressional findings |
Contains | section 2801 |
Date | 1999 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 23, 2000 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Short Titles | Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 93-629, §2, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2148. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 88 Stat. 2148 |
Public Law References | Public Law 93-629 |
§2801. Congressional findings
The importation or distribution in interstate commerce of noxious weeds, except under controlled conditions, allows the growth and spread of such weeds which interfere with the growth of useful plants, clog waterways and interfere with navigation, cause disease, or have other adverse effects upon man or his environment and therefore is detrimental to the agriculture and commerce of the United States and to the public health. The uncontrolled distribution within the United States of noxious weeds after their importation or interstate distribution has like detrimental effects and allowing such distribution encourages and facilitates the burdening and obstructing of interstate and foreign commerce, and is inimical to the public interest. Accordingly, the Congress hereby determines that the regulation of transactions in, and movement of, noxious weeds as provided in this chapter is necessary to prevent and eliminate burdens upon and obstructions to interstate and foreign commerce and to protect the public welfare.
(Pub. L. 93–629, §2, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2148.)
Short TitleSection 1 of Pub. L. 93–629 provided: “That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974’.”
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