§ 52. — Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC52]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 2--COTTON STANDARDS
Sec. 52. Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by
sample excepted
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.
(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 288, Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 1517.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 60 of this title.
