[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: 7CFR742.2]

[Page 358-359]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 742--COTTONSEED WAREHOUSES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 742.2  Terms defined.

    For the purpose of 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. 241-273), as amended.
    (b) Person. An individual, corporation, partnership, or two or more 
persons having a joint or common interest.
    (c) Secretary. 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) Administrator. The Administrator of the Service or any other 
officer or

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employee of the Service to whom authority has heretofore lawfully been 
delegated, or may hereafter lawfully be delegated, to act in his stead.
    (e) Regulations. Rules and regulation made under the act by the 
Secretary.
    (f) Service. The Farm Service Agency of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture.
    (g) Warehouse. Any building, structure, or other protected inclosure 
in which cottonseed 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 cottonseed is or may be 
stored.
    (h) Warehouseman. Any person lawfully engaged in the business of 
storing cottonseed.
    (i) Cottonseed. Prime cottonseed, cool, clean and not containing in 
excess of 1 percent foreign matter nor in excess of 10 percent moisture; 
sound and not containing in excess of 6 percent damaged or immature 
seed, and shall be untreated by chemical process: Provided, That if the 
warehouse is equipped with such cooling and conditioning equipment as 
may be acceptable to the Department, or if the cottonseed is in sacks 
containing not more than 100 pounds to the sack and stored in such 
manner as the Administrator, or his representatives, may approve, the 
cottonseed may have a moisture content not in excess of 12 percent.
    (j) License. A license issued under the act by the Secretary.
    (k) Licensed warehouse. A warehouse for the conduct of which a 
license has been issued.
    (l) Licensed warehouseman's bond. A bond required to be given under 
the act by a licensed warehouseman.
    (m) Licensed grader. A person licensed under the act by the 
Secretary to grade and to certificate the grade or other class of 
cottonseed stored or to be stored in a licensed warehouse.
    (n) Licensed weigher. A person licensed under the act by the 
Secretary to weigh and certificate the weight of cottonseed stored or to 
be stored in a licensed warehouse.
    (o) Licensed inspector. A person licensed under the act by the 
Secretary to inspect, to sample, and to certificate the condition for 
storage of cottonseed.
    (p) Receipt. A warehouse receipt.
    (q) Bag. A sack or other package.
    (r) State. A State, Territory, or District of the United States.

[SRA, BAE 102, as amended July 14, 1931, and at 13 FR 8730, Dec. 30, 
1948. Redesignated and amended at 50 FR 1814, Jan. 14, 1985]

                           Warehouse Licenses