[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR205.204]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER II--GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION 
       (PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS PROGRAMS),DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 205--CLEAR TITLE--PROTECTION FOR PURCHASERS OF FARM PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 205.204  Filing ``notice'' of EFS.

    (a) If an EFS is filed somewhere other than with the system 
operator, and if notice of it is filed with the system operator, such 
notice could be electronic filing, telephoned information, or any other 
form of notice which gives the system operator the information needed 
for the master list. Such notice need not be signed. Note that the 
Section does not contain any requirement for such notice except the one 
in subsection (c)(4)(B) that an EFS

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must be filed somewhere pursuant to State law as discussed above.
    (b) Countermeasures against falsifications, errors or omissions in 
such notices or in the handling of them by the system operator, such as 
requirements that the notices be on paper and signed, with copies date-
stamped and returned to the persons filing them, however advisable they 
might be from other standpoints, are discretionary with the State and 
not required by the Section.