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PUBLIC LAW 91-577-DEC. 24, 1970
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of specifications, drawings, and photographs of applications and protected plant varieties of foreign countries. Sec. 11. Copies far Public Libraries. The Secretary may supply printed copies of specifications, drawings, and photographs of protected plant varieties to public libraries in the United States which shall maintain such copies for the use of the public. Chapter 2.—LEGAL PROVISIONS AS TO THE PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION OFFICE
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Sec. 21. Day for Taking Action Falling on Saturday, Sunday, or Holiday. When the day, or the last day, for taking any action or paying any fee in the United States Plant variety Protection Office falls on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday within the District of Columbia, or on any other day the Plant Variety Protection Office is closed for the receipt of papers, the action may be taken or the fee paid, on the next succeeding business day. Sec. 22. Form of Papers Filed. The Secretary may by regulations prescribe the form of papers to be filed in the Plant Variety Protection Office. Sec. 23. Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office Cases. The Secretary may establish regulations for taking affidavits, depositions, and other evidence required in cases before the Plant Variety Protection Office. Any officer authorized by law to take depositions to be used in the courts of the United States, or of the State where he resides, may take such affidavits and depositions, and swear the witnesses. If any person acts as a hearing officer by authority of the Secretary, he shall have like power. Sec. 24. Subpoenas, Witnesses. (a) The clerk of any United States court for the district wherein testimony is to be taken in accordance with regulations established by the Secretary for use in any contested case in the Plant Variety Protection Office shall, upon the application of any party thereof, issue a subpoena for any witness residing or being withih such district or within one hundred miles of the stated place in such district, commanding him to appear and testify before an officer in such district authorized to take depositions and affidavits, at the time and place stated in the subpoena. The provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to the attendance of witnesses and the f)roduction of documents and things shall apply to contested cases in the Plant Variety Protection Office insofar as consistent with such regulations. (b) Every witness subpoenaed or testifying shall be allowed the fees and traveling expenses allowed to witnesses attending the United States district courts. (c) A judge of a court whose clerk issued a subpoena may enforce obedience to the process or punish disobedience as in other like cases, on proof that a witness, served with such subpoena, neglected or refused to appear or to testify. No witness shall be deemed guilty of contempt for disobeying such subpoena unless his fees and traveling expenses in going to, and returning from, one day's attendance at the place of examination^ are paid or tendered him at the time of the service of the subpoena; nor for refusing to disclose any secret matter except upon appropriate order of the court which issued the subpoena or of the Secretary.
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