§ 201. — "Stockyard owner"; "stockyard services"; "market agency"; "dealer"; defined.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC201]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
SUBCHAPTER III--STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS
Sec. 201. ``Stockyard owner''; ``stockyard services''; ``market
agency''; ``dealer''; defined
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, or 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, Sec. 301, 42 Stat. 163; Pub. L. 85-
909, Sec. 2(1), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1750; Pub. L. 94-410, Sec. 3(c),
Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1249.)
Amendments
1976--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''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 203 of this title.