Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards
§ 215. Failure to obey orders; punishment
Statutory text
Any stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer who knowingly fails to obey any order made under the provisions of sections 211, 212, or 213 of this title shall forfeit to the United States the sum of $500 for each offense. Each distinct violation shall be a separate offense, and in case of a continuing violation each day shall be deemed a separate offense. Such forfeiture shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States.
It shall be the duty of the various United States attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General, to prosecute for the recovery of forfeitures. The costs and expense of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of the United States.
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. § 215
Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 314, 42 Stat. 167
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 314, 42 Stat. 167
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act , eff. , substituted “United States attorneys” for “district attorneys” in subsec. (a). See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and Historical and Revision Notes thereunder.
Credits
1921–1948 · 2 acts
- 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 314, 42 Stat. 167
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.
Show as published
(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 314, 42 Stat. 167; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.)