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[CITE: 7USC511b]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                     CHAPTER 21A--TOBACCO INSPECTION
 
Sec. 511b. Official standards for classification; tentative 
        standards; modification
        
    The Secretary is authorized to investigate the sorting, handling, 
conditioning, inspection, and marketing of tobacco from time to time, 
and to establish standards for tobacco by which its type, grade, size, 
condition, or other characteristics may be determined, which standards 
shall be the official standards of the United States, and shall become 
effective immediately or upon a date specified by the Secretary: 
Provided, That the Secretary may issue tentative standards for tobacco 
prior to the establishment of official standards therefor, and he may 
modify any standards established under authority of this chapter 
whenever, in his judgment, such action is advisable.

(Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 623, Sec. 3, 49 Stat. 732.)
