9 C.F.R. PART 201--REGULATIONS UNDER THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT
TITLE 9--Animals and Animal Products
CHAPTER II--GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION (PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS PROGRAMS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
PART 201--REGULATIONS UNDER THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT
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| Bylaws, rules and regulations, and requirements of exchanges, associations, or other organizations; applicability, establishment.
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| Requirements and procedures.
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| Suspended registrants; officers, agents, and employees.
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| Requirements for filing tariffs.
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| Underwriter; equivalent in lieu of bonds; standard forms.
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| Duplicates of bonds or equivalents to be filed with Regional Supervisors.
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| Market agencies, packers and dealers required to file and maintain bonds.
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| Amount of market agency, dealer and packer bonds.
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| Conditions in market agency, dealer and packer bonds.
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| Trustee in market agency, dealer and packer bonds.
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| Persons damaged may maintain suit; filing and notification of claims; time limitations; legal expenses.
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| Termination of market agency, dealer and packer bonds.
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| Payment to be made to consignor or shipper by market agencies; exceptions.
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| Custodial accounts for trust funds.
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| Payment and accounting for livestock and live poultry.
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| Market agencies to render prompt accounting for purchases on order.
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| Market agencies to make records available for inspection by owners, consignors, and purchasers.
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| Requirements regarding scale tickets evidencing weighing of livestock, live poultry, and feed.
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| Persons subject to the Act not to circulate misleading reports about market conditions or prices.
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| Purchases, sales, acquisitions, payments and settlements to be made on actual weights.
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| Market agencies selling on commission; purchases from consignment.
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| Market agencies selling or purchasing livestock on commission; relationships with dealers.
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| Packers not to own or finance selling agencies.
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| Furnishing information to competitor buyers.
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| Restriction or limitation of competition between packers and dealers prohibited.
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| Scales; accurate weights, repairs, adjustments or replacements after inspection.
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| Scale operators to be qualified.
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| Instructions for weighing livestock.
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| Care and promptness in weighing and handling livestock and live poultry.
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| Brand inspection: Application for authorization, registration and filing of schedules, reciprocal arrangements, and maintenance of identity of consignments.
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| Information as to business; furnishing of by packers, live poultry dealers, stockyard owners, market agencies, and dealers.
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| Inspection of business records and facilities.
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| Unauthorized disclosure of business information prohibited.
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| Packers and dealers not to charge, demand, or collect commission, yardage, or other service charges.
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| Purchase of livestock by packers on a carcass grade, carcass weight, or carcass grade and weight basis.
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| Records to be furnished poultry growers and sellers.
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| Instructions for weighing live poultry.
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| Sale of livestock to a packer on credit.
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