7 CFR § 48.6 - Failure to account.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s48.6"
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title: "7 CFR § 48.6 - Failure to account."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "48.6"
section_name: "Failure to account."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "MARKETING OF PERISHABLE AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES"
part_number: "48"
part_name: "REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE PRODUCE AGENCY ACT"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Sec. 3, 44, Stat. 1355, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 494."
regulatory_source: "24 FR 7127, Sept. 3, 1959, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "48"
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# 48.6 Failure to account.

Any person receiving produce in interstate commerce or in the District of Columbia for or on behalf of another shall be considered to have violated the Act if, knowingly and with intent to defraud, he fails truly and correctly to account to the person from whom such produce was received.