2014 US Code
Title 7 - Agriculture (Sections 1 - 9097)
Chapter 9 - Packers and Stockyards (Sections 181 - 231)
Subchapter III - Stockyards and Stockyard Dealers (Sections 201 - 217a)
Sec. 201 - "Stockyard owner"; "stockyard services"; "market agency"; "dealer"; defined
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 7 - AGRICULTURE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 7 - AGRICULTURE CHAPTER 9 - PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS SUBCHAPTER III - STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS Sec. 201 - Stockyard owner"; "stockyard services"; "market agency"; "dealer"; defined |
Contains | section 201 |
Date | 2014 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, §301, 42 Stat. 163; Pub. L. 85-909, §2(1), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1750; Pub. L. 94-410, §3(c), Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1249. |
Statutes at Large References | 42 Stat. 163 72 Stat. 1750 90 Stat. 1249 |
Public and Private Laws | Public Law 85-909, Public Law 94-410 |
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When used in this chapter—
(a) The term "stockyard owner" means any person engaged in the business of conducting or operating a stockyard;
(b) The term "stockyard services" means services or facilities furnished at a stockyard in connection with the receiving, buying, or selling on a commission basis or otherwise, marketing, feeding, watering, holding, delivery, shipment, weighing, or handling in commerce, of livestock;
(c) The term "market agency" means any person engaged in the business of (1) buying or selling in commerce livestock on a commission basis or (2) furnishing stockyard services; and
(d) The term "dealer" means any person, not a market agency, engaged in the business of buying or selling in commerce livestock, either on his own account or as the employee or agent of the vendor or purchaser.
(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, §301, 42 Stat. 163; Pub. L. 85–909, §2(1), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1750; Pub. L. 94–410, §3(c), Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1249.)
AMENDMENTS1976—Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 94–410 substituted "livestock" for "live stock".
1958—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 85–909 struck out "at a stockyard" after "livestock".
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