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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards

§ 228c. Federal preemption of State and local requirements

Statutory text

No requirement of any State or territory of the United States, or any subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, with respect to bonding of packers or prompt payment by packers for livestock purchases may be enforced upon any packer operating in compliance with the bonding provisions under section 204 of this title, and prompt payment provisions of section 228b of this title, respectively: Provided, That this section shall not preclude a State from enforcing a requirement, with respect to payment for livestock purchased by a packer at a stockyard subject to this chapter, which is not in conflict with this chapter or regulations thereunder: Provided further, That this section shall not preclude a State from enforcing State law or regulations with respect to any packer not subject to this chapter or section 204 of this title.

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. 94–410 § 9 · 90 Stat. 1249

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 228c

    Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 414, formerly § 410, as added Pub. L. 94–410, § 9, Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1252

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 414, formerly § 410, as added Pub. L. 94–410, § 9, Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1252

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. The Packers and Stockyards Act. 1921, as amended, is further amended by adding after new section 409 a new section 410 to read as follows: “Sec. 410. No requirement of any State or territory of the United States, or any subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, with respect to bonding of packers or prompt payment by packers for live-stock purchases may he enforced upon any packer operating in compliance with the bonding provisions under the Act of July 12, 1943 (57 Stat. 422 ; 7 U.S.C. 204), and prompt payment provisions of section 409 of this Act respectively: Provided,That this section shall not preclude a. State from enforcing a requirement, with respect to payment for livestock purchased by a packer at a stockyard subject to this Act, which is not in conflict with this Act or regulations thereunder: Provided further,That this section shall not preclude a State from enforcing State law or regulations with respect to any packer not subject to this Act or the Act of July 12, 1943.”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

1921–1987 · 2 acts
  1. 1921Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 414, formerly § 410, as added Pub. L. 94–410, § 9, , 90 Stat. 1252
  2. 1987renumbered § 414, Pub. L. 100–173, § 9(1), , 101 Stat. 919.
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(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 414, formerly § 410, as added Pub. L. 94–410, § 9, , 90 Stat. 1252; renumbered § 414, Pub. L. 100–173, § 9(1), , 101 Stat. 919.)

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