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[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.
