[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR735.38]

[Page 228]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 735--COTTON WAREHOUSES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 735.38  Weighing of cotton; weighing apparatus.

    (a) Before being stored in a licensed warehouse, all cotton shall be 
weighed at the warehouse by a licensed weigher, and the weight so 
determined shall be stated on the warehouse receipt. Point of origin 
weights may be used for single bale or lot stored cotton by agreement 
with the depositor. Any point of origin weights shown on a warehouse 
receipt will be the official warehouse bale or lot weight. Lot cotton 
tendered for storage on which a multiple bale warehouse receipt is 
issued must be maintained so as to preserve its individual and 
collective identity during storage and shipment, provided that if such 
lot is broken at the warehouse, for the issuance of new receipts, each 
bale shall be weighed at the warehouse by a licensed weigher before 
single bale warehouse receipts are issued.
    (b) Each licensed warehouse shall be equipped with scales acceptable 
to the Department for weighing cotton into and out of the warehouse. The 
weighing apparatus used for ascertaining the weight stated in a receipt 
or certificate, issued for cotton stored in a licensed warehouse, shall 
be subject to examination by an officer or agent of the Department 
designated by the Administrator for the purpose. If the Department shall 
disapprove such weighing apparatus, it shall not thereafter, unless such 
disapproval be withdrawn, be used in ascertaining the weight of any 
cotton for the purposes of the act and the regulations in this part.

[33 FR 14699, Oct. 2, 1968. Redesignated at 50 FR 1814, Jan. 14, 1985, 
as amended at 64 FR 54511, Oct. 7, 1999]