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[CITE: 7USC209]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
            SUBCHAPTER III--STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS
 
Sec. 209. Liability to individuals for violations; enforcement 
        generally
        
    (a) If any person subject to this chapter violates any of the 
provisions of this chapter, or of any order of the Secretary under this 
chapter, relating to the purchase, sale, or handling of livestock, the 
purchase or sale of poultry, or relating to any poultry growing 
arrangement, he shall be liable to the person or persons injured thereby 
for the full amount of damages sustained in consequence of such 
violation.
    (b) Such liability may be enforced either (1) by complaint to the 
Secretary as provided in section 210 of this title, or (2) by suit in 
any district court of the United States of competent jurisdiction; but 
this section shall not in any way abridge or alter the remedies now 
existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this chapter 
are in addition to such remedies.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, Sec. 308, 42 Stat. 165; Pub. L. 94-
410, Sec. 6, Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1250; Pub. L. 100-173, Sec. 5, 
Nov. 23, 1987, 101 Stat. 918.)


                               Amendments

    1987--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-173 inserted ``the purchase or sale 
of poultry, or relating to any poultry growing arrangement,'' after 
``livestock,''.
    1976--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94-410 struck out references to 
violations of specific sections and added packers to categories of 
regulated persons against whom private action could be brought for 
violation of chapter.


                    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.
