3.2-4733 - Certificate establishing condition, quality, and grade to be furnished by Commissioner in event of dispute.
§ 3.2-4733. Certificate establishing condition, quality, and grade to befurnished by Commissioner in event of dispute.
If there is a dispute or disagreement between a consignor and a commissionmerchant arising at the time of delivery as to condition, quality, grade,pack, quantity or weight of any lot, shipment or consignment of farmproducts, the Commissioner shall furnish, upon the payment by the requestingparty of the necessary expenses, a certificate establishing the condition,quality, grade, pack, quantity or weight of such lot, shipment, orconsignment. The certificate shall be prima facie evidence in all courts ofthe Commonwealth as findings at the time such inspection was made. The burdenof proof shall be upon the commission merchant to prove the correctness ofhis accounting as to any transaction that may be questioned.
(Code 1950, § 3-559; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-717; 2008, c. 860.)