Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102

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

Title 7 › CHAPTER 4 — NAVAL STORES › § 94

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Agriculture Secretary must provide copies of the official naval stores standards to anyone who asks, if practical, as long as they give a satisfactory guarantee the copies will be returned and follow the Secretary’s rules. He must also, when asked and if practical, examine, test, and grade naval stores under those rules. The Secretary will give a written certificate showing the test, grade, or classification. That certificate is treated as valid proof of the results and of the contents of any package sampled, and it can be used 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 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102