Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards
§ 222. Federal Trade Commission powers adopted for enforcement of chapter
Statutory text
For the efficient execution of the provisions of this chapter, and in order to provide information for the use of Congress, the provisions (including penalties) of sections 46 and 48 to 50 of title 15, are made applicable to the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of the Secretary in enforcing the provisions of this chapter and to any person subject to the provisions of this chapter, whether or not a corporation. The Secretary, in person or by such agents as he may designate, may prosecute any inquiry necessary to his duties under this chapter in any part 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. § 222
Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 402, 42 Stat. 168
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 402, 42 Stat. 168
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1935—Act , § 503, as added , purported to insert “or any live poultry dealer or handler” after “packer” but word “packer” does not appear in this section.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Executive and administrative functions of Federal Trade Commission, with certain reservations, transferred to Chairman of such Commission by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 8, § 1, eff. , 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
1921 · 2 acts
- 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 402, 42 Stat. 168
- 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title V, § 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 532, 49 Stat. 649.
Show as published
(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 402, 42 Stat. 168; Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title V, § 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 532, 49 Stat. 649.)