---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2259"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2259"
heading: "Market-inspection certificates as prima facie evidence"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2259"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2259. Market-inspection certificates as prima facie evidence


Market-inspection certificates issued by authorized agents of the Department of Agriculture shall be received in all courts of the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained.


## Source credit

(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title IV, § 401(c), 58 Stat. 738.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

This section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.

Section was formerly classified to section 575 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.