FEDERAL · 7 U.S.C. · Chapter SUBCHAPTER III—STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS

Unreasonable or discriminatory practices generally; rights of stockyard owner of management and regulation

7 U.S.C. § 208
Title7Agriculture
ChapterSUBCHAPTER III—STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS

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7 U.S.C. § 208.

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(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 an

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History

(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

Editorial Notes

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

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