2016 US Code
Title 7 - Agriculture
Chapter 2 - Cotton Standards
Sec. 52 - Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted

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Citation 7 U.S.C. § 52 (2016)
Section Name §52. Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted
Section Text

It shall be unlawful (a) in or in connection with any transaction or shipment in commerce made after August 1, 1923, or (b) in any publication of a price or quotation determined in or in connection with any transaction or shipment in commerce after August 1, 1923, or (c) in any classification for the purposes of or in connection with a transaction or shipment in commerce after August 1, 1923, for any person to indicate for any cotton a grade or other class which is of or within the official cotton standards of the United States then in effect under this chapter by a name, description, or designation, or any system of names, description, or designation not used in said standards: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent a transaction otherwise lawful by actual sample or on the basis of a private type which is used in good faith and not in evasion of or substitution for said standards.

Source Credit

(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 288, §2, 42 Stat. 1517.)

Publication Title United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 2 - COTTON STANDARDS
Sec. 52 - Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted
Contains section 52
Date 2016
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 6, 2017
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large Reference 42 Stat. 1517
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