[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: 7CFR356.5]

[Page 478]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 356--FORFEITURE PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 356.5  Bonded release.

    (a) The Deputy Administrator may accept a bond or other security, in 
the amount of the value of the property as determined under Sec. 356.3, 
in place of any property specified in Sec. 356.1 and release the 
property to the owner or agent of the property, if such action would not 
frustrate the purposes of the Act and Convention. As an example, this 
section does not allow the release of terrestrial plants that are 
without documentation required under 50 CFR chapter I.
    (b) Any request for the return of property based on the acceptance 
of a bond or other security shall be submitted in writing to the Deputy 
Administrator. The request shall include evidence to establish that the 
person making the request is the sole owner of the property referred to 
in the request or is the agent of the sole owner of such property. A 
response in writing, granting or denying the request, and the reasons 
therefor, shall be sent to the person making the request.