[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7, Parts 700 to 899]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR736.29]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 736--GRAIN WAREHOUSES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 736.29  Receipts; basis for issuance.

    Before issuing any receipt under the Act each warehouseman shall, 
unless he personally weighed, inspected, and graded, if graded, a lot of 
grain, first obtain either a copy of, or the original weight 
certificate, and inspection certificate, if any, covering said lot of

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grain. The warehouse records shall clearly identify the certificate(s) 
used as a basis for issuance of each warehouse receipt, and said weight 
and grade certificates shall be kept on file as a record in the 
warehouseman's office; provided that said filing requirements shall be 
deemed satisfied if copies of the certificates upon which warehouse 
receipts are based are filed in the office of a U.S. Registrar or in the 
office of an independent inspection or weighing agency which issued 
them, and are readily accessible for examination purposes. Such 
certificates shall be retained for a period of three years after 
December 31 of the year in which issued.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0560-0120)

[29 FR 15730, Nov. 24, 1964, as amended at 47 FR 745, Jan. 7, 1982. 
Redesignated at 50 FR 1814, Jan. 14, 1985]