---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 51b"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "51b"
heading: "Licensing samplers; revocation and suspension of license"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/51b"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Cotton Standards"
---

# §51b. Licensing samplers; revocation and suspension of license


Further to carry out the purposes of this chapter the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture is authorized to issue to any qualified [person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1), upon presentation of satisfactory evidence of competency, a license to sample cotton. Any such license may be suspended or revoked by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture whenever he is satisfied that such licensee is incompetent or has knowingly or carelessly sampled cotton improperly, or has violated any provision of this chapter or the regulations thereunder so far as the same may relate to him, or has used his license, or allowed it to be used, for any improper purpose. The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture may prescribe by regulation the conditions under which licenses may be issued hereunder, and may require any licensed sampler to give bond for the faithful performance of his duties and for the protection of [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) affected thereby and may prescribe the conditions under which cotton shall be sampled by licensed samplers for the purpose of classification by officers of the Department of Agriculture, or by licensed cotton classifiers.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1933, ch. 284, § 2, 47 Stat. 1621.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

This section was not enacted as part of the United States Cotton Standards Act which comprises this chapter.