7 CFR § 97.103 - Issuance of a certificate.

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title: "7 CFR § 97.103 - Issuance of a certificate."
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title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "97.103"
section_name: "Issuance of a certificate."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
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subchapter_name: "COMMODITY LABORATORY TESTING PROGRAMS"
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authority: "Plant Variety Protection Act, as amended, 7 U.S.C. 2321"
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# 97.103 Issuance of a certificate.

(a) After the notice of allowance has been issued and the applicant has clearly specified whether or not the variety shall be sold by variety name only as a class of certified seed, the certificate shall be promptly issued. Once an election is made and a certificate issued specifying that seed of the variety shall be sold by variety name only as a class of certified seed, no waiver of such rights shall be permitted by amendment of the certificate.

(b) The certificate shall be delivered or mailed to the owner.

[58 FR 42435, Aug. 9, 1993, as amended at 85 FR 432, Jan. 6, 2020]