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§87g Relation to State and local laws; separability

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - GRAIN STANDARDS › § 87g

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

States and local governments cannot make people follow their own inspection or description rules to ship or sell grain across state lines or to other countries. They also cannot require licenses or other limits on federal inspectors or weighers when those officials do inspections or weighing under this law. If a state rule does not conflict with the federal rule, the state rule still stands. If one part of the law is found invalid, the rest of the law stays in force.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §87g

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(a)No State or subdivision thereof may require the inspection or description in accordance with any standards of kind, class, quality, condition, or other characteristics of grain as a condition of shipment, or sale, of such grain in interstate or foreign commerce, or require any license for, or impose any other restrictions upon the performance of any official inspection or weighing function under this chapter by official inspection personnel. Otherwise nothing in this chapter shall invalidate any law or other provision of any State or subdivision thereof in the absence of a conflict with this chapter.
(b)If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–582 substituted in first sentence “official inspection or weighing function” for “official inspection function”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1976 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 94–582 effective 30 days after Oct. 21, 1976, see section 27 of Pub. L. 94–582, as amended, set out as a note under section 74 of this title.

Effective Date

For

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of section, see section 2 of Pub. L. 90–487, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1968 Amendment note under section 78 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 87g

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73