[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR351.5]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 351--IMPORTATION OF PLANTS OR PLANT PRODUCTS BY MAIL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 351.5  Return or destruction.

    Where the plant quarantine inspector requires the entire shipment to 
be returned to the country of origin as a prohibited importation (in 
which event he shall endorse his action thereon) and delivers the 
shipment to the collector of customs, the collector shall in turn 
deliver it to the postmaster for dispatch to the country of origin. If, 
upon examination, the plant material is deemed dangerous to plant life, 
the collector of customs shall permit the plant quarantine inspector to 
destroy immediately both the container and its contents. In either case 
the plant quarantine inspector shall notify the addressee of the action 
taken and the reason therefor. If the objectionable plant material forms 
only a portion of the contents of the mail package and in the judgment 
of the inspector the

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package can safely be delivered to the addressee, after removing and 
destroying the objectionable material, such procedure is authorized. In 
the latter case the inspector shall place in the package a memorandum 
(Form AQI-387) informing the addressee of the action taken by the 
inspector and describing the matter which has been seized and destroyed 
and the reasons therefor.

[24 FR 9923, Dec. 9, 1959, as amended at 36 FR 24917, Dec. 24, 1971]