[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: 9CFR205.214]

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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. 205.214  Litigation as to whether a system is operating in compliance with the Section.

    (a) The requirements for a system in subsection (c) are written as 
the definition of the term ``central filing system,'' so that failure of 
a system to meet any such requirement, either at the time of its 
establishment or later, will mean that it is not a ``central filing 
system'' as defined.
    (b) The issue whether a system, after certification, is operating in 
compliance, thus whether it is a ``central filing system'' as defined, 
could be litigated and ruled on in a case involving only private 
parties, such as a lender and a buyer of a farm product. The only 
immediate effect of a finding in such a case, that a system is not a 
``central filing system'' as defined, would be that the rights of the 
secured party in the case would be as if the State had no system. 
However, others would be in doubt as to whether they could safely rely 
on the same system.

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