<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="idbbbc0efb-aaf5-11e3-a8cb-a7a72594c0f9" identifier="/us/usc/t7/s52"><num value="52">§ 52.</num><heading> Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted</heading><content>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">It shall be unlawful (a) in or in connection with any transaction or shipment in commerce made after <date date="1923-08-01">August 1, 1923</date>, or (b) in any publication of a price or quotation determined in or in connection with any transaction or shipment in commerce after <date date="1923-08-01">August 1, 1923</date>, or (c) in any classification for the purposes of or in connection with a transaction or shipment in commerce after <date date="1923-08-01">August 1, 1923</date>, for any person to indicate for any cotton a grade or other class which is of or within the official cotton standards of the United States then in effect under this chapter by a name, description, or designation, or any system of names, description, or designation not used in said standards: <i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein shall prevent a transaction otherwise lawful by actual sample or on the basis of a private type which is used in good faith and not in evasion of or substitution for said standards.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="idbbbc0efc-aaf5-11e3-a8cb-a7a72594c0f9">(<ref href="/us/act/1923-03-04/ch288/s2">Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 288, § 2</ref>, <ref href="/us/stat/42/1517">42 Stat. 1517</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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