Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture
§ 2259. Market-inspection certificates as prima facie evidence
Statutory text
Market-inspection certificates issued by authorized agents of the Department of Agriculture shall be received in all courts of the United States as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 78–412 · 58 Stat. 734
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2259
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title IV, § 401(c), 58 Stat. 738.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title IV, § 401(c), 58 Stat. 738.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
This section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.
Section was formerly classified to section 575 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, , 80 Stat. 378.
Credits
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title IV, § 401(c), 58 Stat. 738.)