Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 7 : Section 52


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/03/05
Section 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.



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