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[CITE: 7USC205]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
            SUBCHAPTER III--STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS
 
Sec. 205. General duty as to services; revocation of 
        registration
        
    All stockyard services furnished pursuant to reasonable request made 
to a stockyard owner or market agency at such stockyard shall be 
reasonable and nondiscriminatory and stockyard services which are 
furnished shall not be refused on any basis that is unreasonable or 
unjustly discriminatory: Provided, That in any State where the weighing 
of livestock at a stockyard is conducted by a duly authorized department 
or agency of the State, the Secretary, upon application of such 
department or agency, may register it as a market agency for the 
weighing of livestock received in such stockyard, and upon such 
registration such department or agency and the members thereof shall be 
amenable to all the requirements of this chapter, and upon failure of 
such department or agency or the members thereof to comply with the 
orders of the Secretary under this chapter he is authorized to revoke 
the registration of such department or agency and to enforce such 
revocation as provided in section 216 of this title.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, Sec. 304, 42 Stat. 164; May 5, 1926, 
ch. 240, 44 Stat. 397; Pub. L. 90-446, Sec. 1(c), July 31, 1968, 82 
Stat. 474.)


                               Amendments

    1968--Pub. L. 90-446 inserted provision requiring that stockyard 
services which are furnished not be refused on any basis that is 
unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory.
    1926--Act May 5, 1926, inserted proviso.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 211 of this title.
