7 CFR § 869.112 - Terminal and futures contract markets.

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title: "7 CFR § 869.112 - Terminal and futures contract markets."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "869.112"
section_name: "Terminal and futures contract markets."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (FEDERAL GRAIN INSPECTION SERVICE, FAIR TRADE PRACTICES PROGRAM), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "FAIR TRADE PRACTICES"
part_number: "869"
part_name: "REGULATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES WAREHOUSE ACT"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "7 U.S.C. 241"
regulatory_source: "67 FR 50783, Aug. 5, 2002, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 84 FR 45645, Aug. 30, 2019."
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# 869.112 Terminal and futures contract markets.

(a) AMS may issue service licenses to weigh-masters or their deputies to perform services relating to warehouse receipts that are deliverable in satisfaction of futures contracts in such contract markets or as may be prescribed in any applicable licensing agreement.

(b) AMS may authorize a registrar of warehouse receipts issued for an agricultural product in a warehouse licensed under the Act that operates in any terminal market or in any futures contract market the official designated by officials of the State in which such market is located if such individual is not:

(1) An owner or employee of the licensed warehouse;

(2) The owner of, or an employee of the owner of, such agricultural product deposited in any such licensed warehouse; or

(3) As may be prescribed in any applicable licensing or provider agreement.