Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60
§87g Relation to State and Local Laws; Separability
Title 7 › Chapter 3— GRAIN STANDARDS › § 87g
Summary
Stops a State or its local governments from forcing their own inspection rules, descriptions, licenses, or other limits on official grain inspections or weighings when grain is shipped or sold across state lines or to other countries. Other state laws remain in effect unless they conflict with this federal rule. If one part of this federal law is found invalid, the rest still applies.
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
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
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
Effective Date
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
Citations & Metadata
Citation
7 U.S.C. § 87g
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60