[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR47.23]

[Page 307]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 47_RULES OF PRACTICE UNDER THE PERISHABLE AGRICULTURAL 
COMMODITIES ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 47.23  Issuance of order.

    As soon as practicable after the receipt of the record from the 
Hearing Clerk, the Secretary, upon the basis of and after due 
consideration of the record, shall issue his or her order in the 
proceeding. Unless the Secretary disagrees with the order as drafted for 
his or her signature by the examiner, as provided in Sec. 47.19(d), the 
Secretary shall issue as his or her order the order so prepared by the 
examiner. If the Secretary deems it advisable to do so, the Secretary 
may direct that the order be served upon the parties as a tentative 
order and that the parties be allowed such period of time, not to exceed 
20 days, as the Secretary may specify, within which to file exceptions 
thereto and written argument or briefs in support of such exceptions.

[10 FR 2209, Feb. 27, 1945, as amended at 60 FR 8462, Feb. 14, 1995]