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§94 Supplying Duplicates of Standards; Examination, Etc., of Naval Stores and Certification Thereof

Title 7 › Chapter 4— NAVAL STORES › § 94

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must, when possible, give anyone who asks a copy of the official naval stores standards. The requester must leave acceptable security to promise to return the copy, and the Secretary will follow his own rules about how this works. He must also, when possible and asked, inspect and test naval stores under those rules. He will issue a written certificate showing the test, grade, or classification. That certificate will count as proof of the results and of what came from the package, and it can be used as evidence in court.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §94

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The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide, if practicable, any interested persons with duplicates of the official naval stores standards of the United States upon request accompanied by tender of satisfactory security for the return thereof, under such regulations as he may prescribe. The Secretary of Agriculture shall examine, if practicable, upon request of any interested person, any naval stores and shall analyze, classify, or grade the same under such regulations as he may prescribe. He shall furnish a certificate showing the analysis, classification, or grade of such naval stores, which certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the analysis, classification, or grade of such naval stores and of the contents of any package from which the same may have been taken, as well as of the correctness of such analysis, classification, or grade and shall be admissible as such in any court.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1981—Pub. L. 97–35 struck out “on tender of the cost thereof as required by him,” after “grade the same”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1981 Amendment Pub. L. 97–35, title I, § 159(b), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 376, provided that: “The provisions of this section [amending this section and section 98 of this title] shall become effective October 1, 1981”.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 94

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60