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2025 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 3 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 46 - Pennsylvania Preferred® Trademark
Section 4613 - Duties and authority of department

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3 PA Cons Stat § 4613 (2025)
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§ 4613. Duties and authority of department.

(a) Department authority to enter into trademark license agreements.--

(1) The department may enter into a trademark license agreement with a qualified entity.

(2) The department shall establish the terms and conditions under which a person may be licensed to use the Pennsylvania Preferred® trademark or Pennsylvania Preferred Organic® trademark. Terms and conditions shall require a licensee to produce, process, promote or market an agricultural commodity or an organic agricultural commodity in a manner acceptable to the department which protects the reputation of the Pennsylvania Preferred® trademark or Pennsylvania Preferred Organic® trademark.

(3) The department may periodically review a licensing agreement to determine if the terms are being met.

(b) Cooperative activities.--The department may engage in cooperative activities to implement and advance the purposes of this chapter.

(July 1, 2019, P.L.255, No.36, eff. 60 days; Nov. 1, 2023, P.L.148, No.21, eff. 60 days)

2023 Amendment. Act 21 amended subsec. (a)(2).

2019 Amendment. Act 36 renumbered former section 4605 to present section 4613.

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