Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards
§ 208. Unreasonable or discriminatory practices generally; rights of stockyard owner of management and regulation
Statutory text
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.
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.
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. 165Pub. L. 90–446 § 1(d) · 82 Stat. 474
Amended · 7 U.S.C. § 208
Pub. L. 90–446 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)
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
- 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 307, 42 Stat. 165
- 1968Pub. L. 90–446, § 1(d), , 82 Stat. 475.
Show as published
(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 307, 42 Stat. 165; Pub. L. 90–446, § 1(d), , 82 Stat. 475.)