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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>357838</law_id><section_number>3.2-4733</section_number><catch_line>Certificate establishing condition, quality, and grade to be furnished by Commissioner in event of dispute</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="5" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="4" identifier="III">Production and Sale of Agricultural Products</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="15" identifier="47">Sale of Farm Produce</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Commission Merchants</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If there is a dispute or disagreement between a consignor and a <span class="dictionary">commission merchant</span> arising at the time of delivery as to condition, quality, grade, pack, quantity or weight of any lot, shipment or consignment of <span class="dictionary">farm products</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall furnish, upon the payment by the requesting <span class="dictionary">party</span> of the necessary expenses, a certificate establishing the condition, quality, grade, pack, quantity or weight of such lot, shipment, or consignment. The certificate shall be prima facie <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> in all <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of the Commonwealth as <span class="dictionary">findings</span> at the time such inspection was made. The <span class="dictionary">burden of proof</span> shall be upon the <span class="dictionary">commission merchant</span> to prove the correctness of his accounting as to any transaction that may be questioned.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 3-559; 1966, c. 702, &#xA7; 3.1-717; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
