[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: 7CFR738.2]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 738--WOOL WAREHOUSES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 738.2  Terms defined.

    For the purposes of the regulations in this part, unless the context 
otherwise require, the following terms shall be construed, respectively, 
to mean:
    (a) The act. The United States Warehouse Act, approved August 11, 
1916 (39 Stat. 486; 7 U.S.C. 241-274), as amended.
    (b) Person. An individual, corporation, partnership, or two or more 
persons having a joint or common interest.
    (c) Secretary. ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture of 
the United States or any officer or employee of the Department to whom 
authority has heretofore been delegated, or to whom authority may 
hereafter be delegated, to act in his stead.
    (d) Designated representative. The Administrator.
    (e) Administrator. The Administrator of the Service or any other 
officer or employee of the Service to whom authority has heretofore 
lawfully been delegated, or may hereafter lawfully be delegated, to act 
in his stead.
    (f) Department. The United States Department of Agriculture.
    (g) Service. The Farm Service Agency of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture.
    (h) Regulations. Rules and regulations made under the act by the 
Secretary.
    (i) Warehouse. Any suitable building, structure, or other protected 
inclosure in which wool is or may be stored for interstate or foreign 
commerce, or, if located within any place under the exclusive 
jurisdiction of the United States, in which wool is or may be stored and 
for which a license has been issued under the act.
    (j) Warehouseman. Any person lawfully engaged in the business of 
storing wool.
    (k) License. A license issued under the act by the Secretary or his 
designated representative.
    (l) Grader. A person licensed under the act by the Secretary or his 
designated representative, to grade and to certificate the grade of wool 
stored or to be stored in a licensed warehouse.
    (m) Weigher. A person licensed under the act by the Secretary or his 
designated representative, to weigh and to certificate the weight of 
wool stored or to be stored in a licensed warehouse.
    (n) Receipt. A warehouse receipt.
    (o) Kind of wool. Grease, scoured, or pulled, and sorted or unsorted 
wool, or sorted or unsorted mohair.
    (p) State. A State, Territory, or District of the United States.

[5 FR 3607, Sept. 10, 1940, as amended at 13 FR 8729, Dec. 30, 1948. 
Redesignated and amended at 50 FR 1814, Jan. 14, 1985]

                           Warehouse Licenses