It shall be unlawful (a) in or in connection with any transaction or shipment in commerce made after , or (b) in any publication of a price or quotation determined in or in connection with any transaction or shipment in commerce after , or (c) in any classification for the purposes of or in connection with a transaction or shipment in commerce after , 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: , 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.
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§ 51a. Extension of classification facilities to cotton growers
§ 51a–1. Contracts with cooperatives furnishing classers; amount and type of payment
§ 51b. Licensing samplers; revocation and suspension of license
§ 52. Use of nonofficial standards prohibited; sales by sample excepted
§ 53. Licensing classifiers; revocation and suspension of license
§ 56. Establishment of cotton standards; furnishing copies of established standards sold
§ 57. Disposition of proceeds of sale of cotton and of copies of standards
§ 57a. Agreements with cotton associations, etc., in foreign countries to establish cotton standards
§ 58. General inspection and sampling of cotton
§ 59. Offenses in relation to cotton standards
§ 60. Penalties for violations
§ 61. General regulations, investigations, tests, etc., by Secretary
§ 61a. Annual review meetings with cotton industry representatives; purposes, etc.
§ 63. Liability of principal for act of agent
§ 64. Appropriation for expenses; appointment by Secretary of officers and agents; compensation