Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards
§ 224. Attorney General to institute court proceedings for enforcement
Statutory text
The Secretary may report any violation of this chapter to the Attorney General of the United States, who shall cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the proper courts of the United States without delay.
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. § 224
Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 404, 42 Stat. 168
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 404, 42 Stat. 168
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Editorial Notes
Amendments
1935—Act , title V, § 503, as added , purported to insert “or any live poultry dealer or handler” after “packer” but word “packer” does not appear in this section.
Credits
1921 · 2 acts
- 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 404, 42 Stat. 168
- 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title V, § 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 532, 49 Stat. 649.
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(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 404, 42 Stat. 168; Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title V, § 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 532, 49 Stat. 649.)