§ 737.45 - Licensee preferred for service.

(a) Except as authorized by the Administrator, a warehouseman shall not have any tobacco stored or to be stored in his warehouse, sampled, inspected, graded, or weighed for the purpose of his record or receipts by any person not licensed under the act to perform such services, if there be a person so licensed for such warehouse.

(b) When a grade or weight certificate has been issued by a grader or weigher and delivered to the warehouseman with the first copy of such certificate, the warehouseman shall fill in the identification numbers required in § 737.33, on each certificate, and shall mail or deliver the original certificate to the depositor and file the copy of such certificate as a part of the records of the warehouse.