# § 1520. Producer eligibility
Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, a producer shall not be denied insurance under this subchapter if—
**(1)** for purposes of catastrophic risk protection coverage, the producer is a “person” (as defined by the Secretary); and
**(2)** for purposes of any other plan of insurance, the producer is 18 years of age and has a bona fide insurable interest in a crop as an owner-operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper.
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**Source Credit**: (Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title V, § 520, as added Pub. L. 92–357, July 28, 1972, 86 Stat. 501; amended Pub. L. 103–354, title I, § 113, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3203; Pub. L. 110–234, title XII, § 12033(c)(2)(B), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1405; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XII, § 12033(c)(2)(B), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2167.)
## Editorial Notes
### Codification
and made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by were repealed by .
### Amendments
2008—, substituted “this subchapter” for “this chapter” in two places in introductory provisions.
1994— substituted “Producer eligibility” for “Persons under twenty-one years of age” in section catchline and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be denied insurance under this chapter solely on the ground that he is under twenty-one years of age if such person is (1) over eighteen years of age, and (2) has a bona fide insurable interest in a crop as an owner-operator, landlord, tenant or sharecropper: , That any such person who enters into a Federal Crop Insurance contract shall be subject to the same legal liability and have the same legal rights with respect to such contract as any person over the age of twenty-one years.”
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 2008 Amendment
Amendment of this section and repeal of by effective , the date of enactment of , see , set out as an Effective Date note under .
### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment
Amendment by effective , and applicable to provision of crop insurance under Federal Crop Insurance Act ( et seq.) beginning with 1995 crop year, with such Act, as in effect on the day before , to continue to apply with respect to 1994 crop year, see , set out as a note under .