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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards

§ 208. Unreasonable or discriminatory practices generally; rights of stockyard owner of management and regulation

Statutory text

(a)

It shall be the duty of every stockyard owner and market agency to establish, observe, and enforce just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory regulations and practices in respect to the furnishing of stockyard services, and every unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory regulation or practice is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.

(b)

It shall be the responsibility and right of every stockyard owner to manage and regulate his stockyard in a just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory manner, to prescribe rules and regulations and to require those persons engaging in or attempting to engage in the purchase, sale, or solicitation of livestock at such stockyard to conduct their operations in a manner which will foster, preserve, or insure an efficient, competitive public market. Such rules and regulations shall not prevent a registered market agency or dealer from rendering service on other markets or in occasional and incidental off-market transactions.

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. § 208

    Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 307, 42 Stat. 165

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 307, 42 Stat. 165

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

    1. Amended · 7 U.S.C. § 208

      Pub. L. 90–446 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)

    2. Added · 7 U.S.C. § 208

      Pub. L. 90–446 added subsec. (b)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 90–446 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

0 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 3 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1968—Pub. L. 90–446 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Credits

1921–1968 · 2 acts
  1. 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 307, 42 Stat. 165
  2. 1968Pub. L. 90–446, § 1(d), , 82 Stat. 475.
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(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 307, 42 Stat. 165; Pub. L. 90–446, § 1(d), , 82 Stat. 475.)

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