This Chapter of the USC contains sections on the following: Extension of classification facilities to cotton growers; Contracts with cooperatives furnishing facilities for classing cotton; amount and type of payment; Licensing samplers; revocation and suspension of licence; Use of non-official standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted; Licensing classifiers; revocation and suspension of license; Classification by Department of Agriculture; certification thereof; effect of certificate, regulations for classification; Fees and charges for cotton classing and related services; criteria; disposition of moneys and samples; Establishment of cotton standards; furnishing copies of established standards sold; Disposition of proceeds of sale of cotton and of copies of standards; Agreements with cotton associations, etc., in foreign countries to establish cotton standards; General inspection and sampling of cotton; offences in relation to cotton standards; Penalties for violations; General regulations, investigations, tests, etc., by Secretary; Annual review meetings with cotton industry representatives; purposes, etc.; Definitions; Liability of principal for act of agent; Appropriation for expenses; appointment by Secretary of officers and agents; compensation. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorised by this Chapter to issue a licence to sample cotton and to extend to cotton growers facilities for the classification of cotton authorised in this chapter, with such supervision of licensed classifiers as he shall deem necessary under authority of the United States Cotton Futures Act. The Secretary is also authorised to establish from time to time standards for the classification of cotton by which its quality or value may be judged or determined for commercial purposes which shall be known as the official cotton standards of the United States.
Estados Unidos de América · 1923-03-04