[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: 7CFR47.46]

[Page 308]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 47_RULES OF PRACTICE UNDER THE PERISHABLE AGRICULTURAL 
COMMODITIES ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 47.46  Rule applicable to all proceedings.

    The Secretary may act in the place and stead of an examiner or judge 
in any proceeding hereunder. When the Secretary so acts, the Hearing 
Clerk shall transmit the record to the Secretary at the expiration of 
the period provided for the filing of proposed findings of fact, 
conclusions and orders, and the Secretary shall thereupon, after due 
consideration of the record, issue his or her final order in the 
proceeding: Provided, That the Secretary may issue a tentative order in 
which event the parties shall be afforded an opportunity to file 
exceptions before the issuance on the final order.

[12 FR 1026, Feb. 13, 1947, as amended at 38 FR 30447, Nov. 5, 1973; 60 
FR 8462, Feb. 14, 1995]

    Rules Applicable to the Determination as to Whether a Person Is 
Responsibly Connected With a Licensee Under the Perishable Agricultural 
                             Commodities Act