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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards

§ 206. Rates and charges generally; discrimination

Statutory text

All rates or charges made for any stockyard services furnished at a stockyard by a stockyard owner or market agency shall be just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory, and any unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory rate or charge is prohibited and declared to be unlawful: Provided, That rates and charges based upon percentages of the gross sales prices of livestock shall not be prohibited merely because they are based upon such percentages rather than on a per head basis.

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. § 206

    Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 305, 42 Stat. 164

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 305, 42 Stat. 164

  2. Pub. L. 95–409 § 1(a) · 92 Stat. 886

    Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 206

    Pub. L. 95–409 inserted proviso that rates and charges based upon percentages of gross sales of livestock shall not be prohibited merely because based on such percentages rather than on a per head basis

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 95–409 inserted proviso that rates and charges based upon percentages of gross sales of livestock shall not be prohibited merely because based on such percentages rather than on a per head basis.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) in the introductory paragraph, striking out “unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory” and inserting in lieu thereof “violative of 7 USC 205, 206, 208. section 304, 305, or 307”;

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–409 inserted proviso that rates and charges based upon percentages of gross sales of livestock shall not be prohibited merely because based on such percentages rather than on a per head basis.

Credits

1921–1978 · 2 acts
  1. 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 305, 42 Stat. 164
  2. 1978Pub. L. 95–409, § 1(a), , 92 Stat. 886.
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(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 305, 42 Stat. 164; Pub. L. 95–409, § 1(a), , 92 Stat. 886.)

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