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[CITE: 7USC192]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER II--PACKERS GENERALLY
 
                       Part A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 192. Unlawful practices enumerated

    It shall be unlawful for any packer with respect to livestock, 
meats, meat food products, or livestock products in unmanufactured form, 
or for any live poultry dealer with respect to live poultry, to:
    (a) Engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or 
deceptive practice or device; or
    (b) Make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage 
to any particular person or locality in any respect, or subject any 
particular person or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or 
disadvantage in any respect; or
    (c) Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other packer or any 
live poultry dealer, or buy or otherwise receive from or for any other 
packer or any live poultry dealer, any article for the purpose or with 
the effect of apportioning the supply between any such persons, if such 
apportionment has the tendency or effect of restraining commerce or of 
creating a monopoly; or
    (d) Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other person, or buy or 
otherwise receive from or for any other person, any article for the 
purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of 
creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing 
in, any article, or of restraining commerce; or
    (e) Engage in any course of business or do any act for the purpose 
or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of creating 
a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any 
article, or of restraining commerce; or
    (f) Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person (1) 
to apportion territory for carrying on business, or (2) to apportion 
purchases or sales of any article, or (3) to manipulate or control 
prices; or
    (g) Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person to 
do, or aid or abet the doing of, any act made unlawful by subdivisions 
(a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of this section.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title II, Sec. 202, 42 Stat. 161; Aug. 15, 1921, 
ch. 64, title V, Sec. 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 532, 49 Stat. 
649; Pub. L. 85-909, Sec. 1(1), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1749; Pub. L. 
94-410, Sec. 3(a), Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1249; Pub. L. 100-173, 
Sec. 3, Nov. 23, 1987, 101 Stat. 917; Pub. L. 102-237, title X, 
Sec. 1008(1), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1898; Pub. L. 106-78, title IX, 
Sec. 912, Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1205.)

                          Amendment of Section

        For termination of amendment by section 942 of Pub. L. 106-78, 
    see Termination Date of 1999 Amendment note below.


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106-78, Secs. 912, 942, temporarily 
struck out ``whatsoever'' after ``locality in any respect'' and after 
``disadvantage in any respect''. See Termination Date of 1999 Amendment 
note below.
    1991--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102-237 substituted a comma for period 
after second reference to ``dealer''.
    1987--Pub. L. 100-173, Sec. 3(1), substituted ``for any packer with 
respect to livestock, meats, meat food products, or livestock products 
in unmanufactured form, or for any live poultry dealer with respect to 
live poultry, to'' for ``with respect to livestock, meats, meat food 
products, livestock products in unmanufactured form, poultry, or poultry 
products for any packer or any live poultry dealer or handler to'' in 
introductory provisions.
    Par. (c). Pub. L. 100-173, Sec. 3(2), struck out reference to 
poultry handlers wherever appearing and substituted ``such persons'' for 
``such packers''.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-410 struck out ``in commerce'' wherever appearing.
    1958--Pub. L. 85-909 inserted ``with respect to livestock, meats, 
meat food products, livestock products in unmanufactured form, poultry, 
or poultry products'' after ``unlawful''.
    1935--Act Aug. 15, 1921, title V, Sec. 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, 
inserted ``or any live poultry dealer or handler'' after ``packer'' 
wherever appearing.


                   Termination Date of 1999 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 106-78 to terminate 5 years after Oct. 22, 
1999, see section 942 of Pub. L. 106-78, set out in a Livestock 
Mandatory Reporting note under section 1635 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1987 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 100-173 effective 90 days after Nov. 23, 1987, 
see section 12 of Pub. L. 100-173, set out as a note under section 182 
of this title.
