2019 US Code
Title 7 - Agriculture
Chapter 9 - Packers and Stockyards
Subchapter III - Stockyards and Stockyard Dealers
Sec. 208 - Unreasonable or discriminatory practices generally; rights of stockyard owner of management and regulation

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Citation 7 U.S.C. § 208 (2019)
Section Name §208. Unreasonable or discriminatory practices generally; rights of stockyard owner of management and regulation
Section Text

(a) It shall be the duty of every stockyard owner and market agency to establish, observe, and enforce just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory regulations and practices in respect to the furnishing of stockyard services, and every unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory regulation or practice is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.

(b) It shall be the responsibility and right of every stockyard owner to manage and regulate his stockyard in a just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory manner, to prescribe rules and regulations and to require those persons engaging in or attempting to engage in the purchase, sale, or solicitation of livestock at such stockyard to conduct their operations in a manner which will foster, preserve, or insure an efficient, competitive public market. Such rules and regulations shall not prevent a registered market agency or dealer from rendering service on other markets or in occasional and incidental off-market transactions.

Source Credit

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, §307, 42 Stat. 165; Pub. L. 90–446, §1(d), July 31, 1968, 82 Stat. 475.)

Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS

1968—Pub. L. 90–446 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 1, 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. 208 - Unreasonable or discriminatory practices generally; rights of stockyard owner of management and regulation
Contains section 208
Date 2019
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 24, 2020
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 42 Stat. 165
82 Stat. 475
Public Law References Public Law 90-446
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