[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR905.80]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 905_ORANGES, GRAPEFRUIT, TANGERINES, AND TANGELOS GROWN IN 
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  905.80  Fruit not subject to regulation.

    Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person may, 
without regard to the provisions of Sec. Sec.  905.52 and 905.53 and the 
regulations issued thereunder, ship any variety for the following 
purposes: (a) To a charitable institution for consumption by such 
institution; (b) to a relief agency for distribution by such agency; (c) 
to a commercial processor for conversion by such processor into canned 
or frozen products or into a beverage base; (d) by parcel post; or (e) 
in such minimum quantities, types of shipments, or for such purposes as 
the committee with the approval of the Secretary may

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specify. No assessment shall be levied on fruit so shipped. The 
committee shall, with the approval of the Secretary, prescribe such 
rules, regulations, or safeguards as it may deem necessary to prevent 
varieties handled under the provisions of this section from entering 
channels of trade for other than the purposes authorized by this 
section. Such rules, regulations, and safeguards may include the 
requirements that handlers shall file applications with the committee 
for authorization to handle a variety pursuant to this section, and that 
such applications be accompanied by a certification by the intended 
purchaser or receiver that the variety will not be used for any purpose 
not authorized by this section.

[22 FR 10734, Dec. 27, 1957. Redesignated at 26 FR 12751, Dec. 30, 1961, 
and amended at 42 FR 59371, Nov. 17, 1977]