False marking; cease and desist orders

7 U.S. Code § 2568. False marking; cease and desist orders

(a) Each of the following acts, if performed in connection with the sale, offering for sale, or advertising of sexually or asexually reproducible plant material or tubers or parts of tubers, is prohibited, and the Secretary may, if the Secretary determines after an opportunity for hearing that the act is being so performed, issue an order to cease and desist, said order being binding unless appealed under section 2461 of this title:
(1)
Use of the words “U.S. Protected Variety” or any word or number importing that the material is a variety protected under certificate, when it is not.
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