7 U.S.C. § 2105 — Permissive terms and conditions in orders

Orders issued under this chapter must contain one or more of the following terms and conditions, and except as provided in section 2106 of this title, no others.

(a) Providing for the establishment, issuance, effectuation, and administration of appropriate plans or projects for the advertising and sales promotion of cotton^* and its products and for the disbursement of necessary funds for those purposes: but, That any that plan or project is directed toward increasing the general demand for cotton or its products but no reference to a private brand or trade name is made if the Secretary^* determines that that reference will result in undue discrimination against the cotton products of other persons: And provided further, That no that advertising or sales promotion programs must make use of false or unwarranted claims in behalf of cotton or its products or false or unwarranted statements for the quality, value, or use of any competing product.

(b) Providing for establishing and carrying on research and development projects and studies for the production, ginning, processing, distribution, or utilization of cotton and its products, to the end that the marketing^* and utilization of cotton can be encouraged, expanded, improved, or made more efficient, and for the disbursement of necessary funds for those purposes.
(c) Providing that handlers or any class of handlers maintain and make available for inspection that books and records as can be required by the order and for the filing of reports by that handlers at the times, in the manner, and having the content prescribed by the order, to the end that information and data is made available to the Cotton Board and to the Secretary which is appropriate or necessary to the effectuation, administration, or enforcement of this chapter or of any order or regulation issued under this chapter: but, That all information so obtained is kept confidential by all officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture and of the Cotton Board, and only that information so furnished or acquired as the Secretary treats relevant is disclosed by them, and then only in a suit or administrative hearing brought at the direction, or upon the request, of the Secretary of Agriculture, or to which he or any officer of the United States^* is a party, and involving the order with reference to which the information so to be disclosed was furnished or acquired. Nothing in this section is treated to prohibit (1) the issuance of general statements based upon the reports of a number of handlers subject to an order, which statements do not identify the information furnished by any person^*, or (2) the publication by direction of the Secretary, of the name of any person violating any order, together with a statement of the particular provisions of the order violated by that person. Any that officer or employee violating the provisions of this subsection must upon conviction be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or to both, and is removed from office.
(d) Terms and conditions incidental to and not inconsistent with the terms and conditions specified in this chapter and necessary to carry out the other provisions of that order.