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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards

§ 205. General duty as to services; revocation of registration

Statutory text

All stockyard services furnished pursuant to reasonable request made to a stockyard owner or market agency at such stockyard shall be reasonable and nondiscriminatory and stockyard services which are furnished shall not be refused on any basis that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory: Provided, That in any State where the weighing of livestock at a stockyard is conducted by a duly authorized department or agency of the State, the Secretary, upon application of such department or agency, may register it as a market agency for the weighing of livestock received in such stockyard, and upon such registration such department or agency and the members thereof shall be amenable to all the requirements of this chapter, and upon failure of such department or agency or the members thereof to comply with the orders of the Secretary under this chapter he is authorized to revoke the registration of such department or agency and to enforce such revocation as provided in section 216 of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 67–64 · 42 Stat. 147

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 205

    Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 164

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 164

  2. Pub. L. 90–446 § 1(c) · 82 Stat. 474

    Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 205

    Pub. L. 90–446 inserted provision requiring that stockyard services which are furnished not be refused on any basis that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 90–446 inserted provision requiring that stockyard services which are furnished not be refused on any basis that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory.

0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments1926–1968 · 2 rounds

1968

Pub. L. 90–446 inserted provision requiring that stockyard services which are furnished not be refused on any basis that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory.

1926

Act , inserted proviso.

Credits

1921–1968 · 3 acts
  1. 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 164
  2. 1926May 5, 1926, ch. 240, 44 Stat. 397
  3. 1968Pub. L. 90–446, § 1(c), , 82 Stat. 474.
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(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 164; May 5, 1926, ch. 240, 44 Stat. 397; Pub. L. 90–446, § 1(c), , 82 Stat. 474.)

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