§ 208. — Unreasonable or discriminatory practices generally; rights of stockyard owner of management and regulation.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC208]
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
(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.
(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, Sec. 307, 42 Stat. 165; Pub. L. 90-
446, Sec. 1(d), July 31, 1968, 82 Stat. 475.)
Amendments
1968--Pub. L. 90-446 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)
and added subsec. (b).
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 211 of this title.
