Approved Code No. 275A-Amendment Ne. 1 Registry No. 615-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO SUPPLEMENTARY 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

AGRICULTURAL INSECTICIDE 

AND FUNGICIDE INDUSTRY 

(A Division of the Chemical Manufacturing Industry) 

AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 19, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 275A-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO SUPPLEMENTARY CODE OF FAIR 

COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

AGRICULTURAL INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE 

INDUSTRY 

As Approved on October 19, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF SUPPLEMENTARY CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE AGRICULTURAL INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE 

INDUSTRY 

A DIVISION OF THE CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly made fursuant to and in :full 

compliance with the provisions of Title I o the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for approval of an amendment to the Supplementary Code of Fair Competition for the Agricultural Insecticide and Fungicide Industry, a division of the Chemical Manufacturing Industry, and Notice of Opportunity to be Heard 

having been duly published thereon and the annexed report on said 

amendment, containing findings with respect thereto, having been 

made and directed to the President : 

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in it by Executive Orders of the President, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, dated September 27, 1934, and otherwise; 

does hereby incorporate, by reference, said annexed report and does 

find that said amendment and the Code as constituted after being 

amended comply in all respects with the pertinent provisions and 

will promote the policy and purposes of said Title of said Act, and 

does hereby order that said amendment be and it is hereby approved, 

and that the previous approval of said Code is hereby amended to 

include an approval of said Code in its entirety as amended; provided, however, that Section 7 ( d) of Article IV be and it is hereby 

deleted. 

NATION AL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By G. A. LYNCH, Admlinistrative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

JOSEPH F. BATTLEY, 

Acting Division Administrator. 

WASHINGTON, D. c., 

Octob(!;(f' 19, 1934. 

92440°-1244-72-34 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White H 0UJSe. 

Srn: This is a report on an amendment to the Supplementary 

Code of Fair Competition for the Agricultural Insecticide and Fungicide, a Division of the Chemical Manufacturing Industry, which 

was approved by you on February 10, 1934. 

The effect of this amendment will enable the Code Authority to 

submit a budget and basis of assessment and give it the power to 

institute legal proceedings, if necessary, for the collection of said 

assessments. 

FINDINGS 

The Acting Deputy Administrator in his final report on said 

amendment of said Code having found as herein set forth and on 

the basis of all the proceedings in this matter: 

The Board finds that: 

(a) The amendment of said Code and the Code as amended are 

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which tend 

to diminish the amount thereof, and will provide for the general 

welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the purpose 

of cooperative action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of the 

present productive capacity of rndustries, by avoiding undue restriction of produ~tion ( except as may be temporarily required), by 

increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products 

through increasing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and by otherwise 

rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation sub-section (a) of Section 3, sub-section (a) of Section 7 and 

sub-section (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

( c) The Code empowers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid amendment on behalf of the industry as a whole. 

( d) The amendment and the Code as amended are not designed to 

and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

( e) The amendment a.nd the Code as amended are not designed 

to a.nd will not eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not 

operate to discriminate against them. 

(f) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

amendment. 

For this reason this amendment has been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

G. A. LYNCH 

Adm,ini,strat-ive Officer. 

(2) 
AJ\1ENDl\fENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE AGRICULTURAL INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE 

INDUSTRY 

A DIVISION OF THE CHEMICAL l\IANUF ACTURING INDUSTRY 

Article IV, Section 5 shall be deleted and the following inserted 

in place thereof : 

"SECTION 5. It being found necessary in order to support the 

administration of this code and to maintain the standards of fair 

competition established hereunder and to e:ff ectuate the policy 0f 

the Act, the Code Authority is authorized: 

(a) To incur such reasonable obligations as are necessary and 

proper for the foregoing purposes, and to meet such obligations 

out of funds which may be raised as hereinafter provided and 

which shall be held in trust for the purposes of the Code; 

(b) To submit to the National Industrial Recovery Board for 

their approval subject to such notice and opportunitl to be heard 

as they may deem necessary (1) an itemized budget 01. its estimated 

expenses for the foregoing purposes, and (2) an equitable basis 

upon which the funds necessary to support such budget shall be 

contributed by members of the Industry; 

( c) After such budget a.nd basis of contribution have been approved by the N a.tional Industrial Recovery Board, to determine and 

obtain equitable contribution as above set forth by all memhers of 

the Industry, and to that end, if necessary, to institute legal proceedings therefor in its own name. 

Each member of the Industry shall pay his or its equitable contribution to the expenses of the maintenance of the Code Authority, 

determined as hereinbefore pro -·ded, and subject to rules and regulations pertaining thereto issued by the N ationa.l Industrial Recovery 

Board. Only members of the Industry complying with the Code 

and contributing to the expen. es of its administration as hereinbefore provided (unless duly ex mpte 1 -from n1aking such contributions) shall be entitled to participate in the selection of members of 

the Code Authority or to receive the benefits of any of its voluntary 

activities or to make use of any emblem or insignia of the National 

Recovery Administration. 

The Code Authority shall neither incur nor pay any obligation 

substantially in excess of the amount thereof as estimated in its 

approved budget, and shall in no event exceed the total an1otmt contained in the approved budget~ except upon approval of the National 

Industrial Recovery Board; and no subsequent budget shall contain 

any deficiency item for expenditures in excess of prior budget estimates except those which the National Industrial Recovery Board 

shall have so approved. 

Approved Code No. 275A-Amendment No. 1. 

Registry No. 615-02. 

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