---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 493"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "493"
heading: "Enforcement of provisions; prosecution of cases"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/493"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Dumping or Destruction of Interstate Produce"
---

# §493. Enforcement of provisions; prosecution of cases


The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to enforce this chapter. It is made the duty of all [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) attorneys to prosecute cases arising under this chapter, subject to the supervision and control of the Department of Justice.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 309, § 2, 44 Stat. 1355.)