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7 U.S.C. § 491 — Destruction or dumping of farm produce received in interstate commerce by commission merchants, etc.; penalty
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After June 30, 1927, any person, firm, association, or corporation receiving any fruits, vegetables, melons, dairy, or poultry products or any perishable farm products of any kind or character, hereinafter referred to as produce, in interstate commerce, or in the District of Columbia, for or on behalf of another, who without good and sufficient cause therefor, shall destroy, or abandon, discard as refuse or dump any produce directly or indirectly, or through collusion with any person, or who shall knowingly and with intent to defraud make any false report or statement to the person, firm, association, or corporation from whom any produce was received, concerning the handling, condition, quality, quantity, sale, or disposition thereof, or who shall knowingly and with intent to defraud fail truly and correctly to account therefor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $3,000, or by imprisonment for a period of not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.
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After June 30, 1927, any person, firm, association, or corporation receiving any fruits, vegetables, melons, dairy, or poultry products or any perishable farm products of any kind or character, hereinafter referred to as produce, in interstate commerce, or in the District of Columbia, for or on behalf of another, who without good and sufficient cause therefor, shall destroy, or abandon, discard as refuse or dump any produce directly or indirectly, or through collusion with any person, or who shall knowingly and with intent to defraud make any false report or statement to the person, firm, association, or corporation from whom any produce was received, concerning the handling, condition, quality, quantity, sale, or disposition thereof, or who shall knowingly and with intent to defraud fail truly and correctly to account therefor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $3,000, or by imprisonment for a period of not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 309, § 1, 44 Stat. 1355, related to investigation of quality and condition of produce received in interstate commerce. See [section 1622(h) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1622/h&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 491
tests, and other tests of the quality of cotton
samples submitted to him by cotton breeders
and other persons, subject to such terms and
conditions and to the payment by such cotton
breeders and other persons of such fees as he
may prescribe by regulations under this chapter.
The fees to be assessed hereunder shall be rea-
sonable, and, as nearly as may be, to cover the
cost of the service rendered.
(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 337, § 3d, as added Apr. 7, 1941,
ch. 42, 55 Stat. 131.)
§ 474. Powers of Secretary of Agriculture; appro-
priation
The Secretary of Agriculture may cooperate
with any department or agency of the Govern-
ment, any State, Territory, District, or posses-
sion, or department, agency, or political sub-
division thereof, or any person; and shall have
the power to appoint, remove, and fix the com-
pensation of such officers and employees, not in
conflict with existing law, and make such ex-
penditures for the purchase of samples of cotton,
for rent outside the District of Columbia, print-
ing, telegrams, telephones, books of reference,
periodicals, furniture, stationery, office equip-
ment, travel, and other supplies and expenses as
shall be necessary to the administration of this
chapter in the District of Columbia and else-
where and there are authorized to be appro-
priated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated such sums as may be
necessary for such purposes. The Secretary of
Agriculture shall maintain until at least Janu-
ary 1, 1999, all cotton classing office locations in
the State of Missouri that existed on January 1,
1996.
(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 337, § 4, 44 Stat. 1373; Pub. L.
104–127, title IX, § 912(b), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat.
1185.)
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