---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 29.57"
title: "7"
number: "29.57"
heading: "Where inspection is offered."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/29.57"
---

# §29.57. Where inspection is offered.


Tobacco may be inspected, sampled, or weighed for the purposes of the Act, upon request of an interested party, at points indicated in paragraphs [(a)](#a), [(b)](#b), and [(c)](#c) of this section whenever official inspectors, samplers, or weighers are available and the tobacco is offered under conditions that permit of its proper examination.

- (a) Points at which tobacco enters, or is offered for, interstate or foreign shipment, including packing houses, prizeries, warehouses, and other places where tobacco is handled, packed, or stored.
- (b) **The stations or the headquarters of inspectors, samplers, or weighers.** An official station may be any town, city, or place having a market, receiving station, or other facilities for handling, packing, or storing tobacco and where there is a sufficient volume of work to justify the stationing of an inspector, sampler, or weigher.
- (c) Points near an official station, to the extent permitted by the time of the inspector, sampler, or weigher at such official station.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 13 FR 9474, Dec. 31, 1948; 19 FR 57, Jan. 6, 1954, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 511-511s.