7 USC § 52 - Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted

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identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s52"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "7 USC § 52 - Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "52"
section_name: "Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "COTTON STANDARDS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 288, § 2, 42 Stat. 1517.)"
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# § 52. Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted

August 1, 1923August 1, 1923August 1, 1923*Provided*

It shall be unlawful (a) in or in connection with any transaction or shipment in commerce made after , or (b) in any publication of a price or quotation determined in or in connection with any transaction or shipment in commerce after , or (c) in any classification for the purposes of or in connection with a transaction or shipment in commerce after , 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: , 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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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 288, § 2, 42 Stat. 1517.)