[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 7, Volume 8] [Revised as of January 1, 2005] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 7CFR927.65] [Page 214] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PART 927_WINTER PEARS GROWN IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON--Table of Contents Subpart_Order Regulating Handling Sec. 927.65 Exemption from regulation. (a) Nothing contained in this subpart shall limit or authorize the limitation of shipment of pears for consumption by charitable institutions or distribution by relief agencies or conversion into by- products, nor shall any assessment be computed on pears so shipped. The Control Committee may prescribe regulations to prevent pears shipped for either of such purposes from entering commercial fresh-fruit channels of trade contrary to the provisions of this subpart. (b) The Control Committee may prescribe rules and regulations, to become effective upon the approval of the Secretary, whereby quantities of pears or types of pear shipments may be exempted from any or all provisions of this subpart. (c) The Control Committee may, with the approval of the Secretary, designate storage warehouses within the area and prescribe rules and regulations whereby pears may be shipped to such storage warehouses exempt from the provisions of this subpart: Provided, That pears so shipped shall not thereafter be handled contrary to the provisions of this subpart. [15 FR 6071, Sept. 9, 1950. Redesignated at 26 FR 12751, Dec. 30, 1961, as amended at 61 FR 17555, Apr. 22, 1996] Miscellaneous Provisions