§ 852. Marketing agreements with handlers; exemption from antitrust laws

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. 1935

   Pub. L. 74–641 § 57 · 49 Stat. 750

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 852

   (Aug. 24, 1935, ch. 641, § 57, 49 Stat. 781.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Aug. 24, 1935, ch. 641, § 57, 49 Stat. 781.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 57. In order to effectuate the policy declared in section 56 of Marketing agreements with manufacturers. this Act the Secretary of Agriculture shall have the power, after due notice and opportunity for hearing, to enter into marketing agreements with manufacturers and others engaged in the handling of anti hog-cholera serum and hog-cholera virus only with respect to such handling as is in the current of interstate or foreign commerce or which directly burdens, obstructs, or affects interstate or foreign commerce in such serum and virus. Such persons are hereafter in “Handlers” construed. Application of anti-trust laws. this Act referred to as “handlers.” The making of any such agreement shall not be held to be in violation of any of the antitrust laws of the United States, and any such agreement shall be deemed to be lawful.

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