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[CITE: 7USC212]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
            SUBCHAPTER III--STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS
 
Sec. 212. Prescribing rates and practices to prevent 
        discrimination between intrastate and interstate commerce
        
    Whenever in any investigation under the provisions of this 
subchapter, or in any investigation instituted by petition of the 
stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer concerned, which petition is 
authorized to be filed, the Secretary after full hearing finds that any 
rate, charge, regulation, or practice of any stockyard owner, market 
agency, or dealer, for or in connection with the buying or selling on a 
commission basis or otherwise, receiving, marketing, feeding, holding, 
delivery, shipment, weighing, or handling, not in commerce, of 
livestock, causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, prejudice, or 
preference as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce in 
livestock on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce in 
livestock on the other hand, or any undue, unjust, or unreasonable 
discrimination against interstate or foreign commerce in livestock, 
which is hereby forbidden and declared to be unlawful, the Secretary 
shall prescribe the rate, charge, regulation, or practice thereafter to 
be observed, in such manner as, in his judgment, will remove such 
advantage, preference, or discrimination. Such rates, charges, 
regulations, or practices shall be observed while in effect by the 
stockyard owners, market agencies, or dealers parties to such proceeding 
affected thereby, the law of any State or the decision or order of any 
State authority to the contrary notwithstanding.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, Sec. 311, 42 Stat. 167; Pub. L. 85-
909, Sec. 2(4), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1750; Pub. L. 94-410, Sec. 3(c), 
Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1249.)


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-410 substituted ``livestock'' for ``live stock'' 
wherever appearing.
    1958--Pub. L. 85-909 substituted ``stockyard owner, market agency, 
or dealer'' for ``stockyard owner or market agency'' wherever occurring, 
and ``stockyard owners, market agencies, or dealers'' for ``stockyard 
owners or market agencies''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 215 of this title.
