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[CITE: 7USC202]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
            SUBCHAPTER III--STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS
 
Sec. 202. ``Stockyard'' defined; determination by Secretary as 
        to particular yard
        
    (a) When used in this subchapter the term ``stockyard'' means any 
place, establishment, or facility commonly known as stockyards, 
conducted, operated, or managed for profit or nonprofit as a public 
market for livestock producers, feeders, market agencies, and buyers, 
consisting of pens, or other inclosures, and their appurtenances, in 
which live cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, or goats are received, 
held, or kept for sale or shipment in commerce.
    (b) The Secretary shall from time to time ascertain, after such 
inquiry as he deems necessary, the stockyards which come within the 
foregoing definition, and shall give notice thereof to the stockyard 
owners concerned, and give public notice thereof by posting copies of 
such notice in the stockyard, and in such other manner as he may 
determine. After the giving of such notice to the stockyard owner and to 
the public, the stockyard shall remain subject to the provisions of this 
subchapter until like notice is given by the Secretary that such 
stockyard no longer comes within the foregoing definition.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, Sec. 302, 42 Stat. 163; Pub. L. 85-
909, Sec. 2(2), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1750; Pub. L. 90-446, Sec. 1(a), 
July 31, 1968, 82 Stat. 474.)


                               Amendments

    1968--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90-446 substituted ``operated, or managed 
for profit or nonprofit as a public market for livestock producers, 
feeders, market agencies, and buyers'' for ``or operated for 
compensation or profit as a public market''.
    1958--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-909 struck out ``Said sections shall 
not apply to a stockyard of which the area normally available for 
handling livestock, exclusive of runs, alleys, or passage ways, is less 
than twenty thousand square feet.''


                       Transportation of Livestock

    Section 2(2) of Pub. L. 85-909 provided in part: ``That nothing 
herein [this section] shall be deemed as a definition of the term 
`public stockyards' as used in section 15(5) of the Interstate Commerce 
Act [former 49 U.S.C. 15(5)].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 203, 207 of this title.
