[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: 7CFR736.34]

[Page 255]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 736--GRAIN WAREHOUSES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 736.34  Records; safe keeping.

    Each warehouseman shall provide a fireproof safe, vault, or 
compartment in which he shall keep, when not in actual use, all records, 
books, and papers pertaining to the licensed warehouse, including his 
current receipt book, copies of issued and canceled receipts, except 
that with the written consent of the Service, upon a showing by such 
warehouseman that it is not practicable to provide such fireproof safe, 
vault, or compartment, he may keep such records, books and papers in 
some other place of safety, approved by the Service. Each canceled 
receipt shall be retained by warehouseman for a period of six years 
after December 31 of the year in which the receipt is canceled and for 
such longer period as may be necessary for the purposes of any 
litigation which the warehouseman knows to be pending, or as may be 
required by the Administrator in particular cases to carry out the 
purposes of the act. Canceled receipts shall be arranged by the 
warehouseman in numerical order and otherwise in such manner as shall be 
directed, for purposes of audit, by authorized officers or agents of the 
Department of Agriculture.

(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]