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[CITE: 7USC228b-1]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER V--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 228b-1. Final date for making payment to cash seller or 
        poultry grower
        

(a) Delivery of full amount due

    Each live poultry dealer obtaining live poultry by purchase in a 
cash sale shall, before the close of the next business day following the 
purchase of poultry, and each live poultry dealer obtaining live poultry 
under a poultry growing arrangement shall, before the close of the 
fifteenth day following the week in which the poultry is slaughtered, 
deliver, to the cash seller or poultry grower from whom such live 
poultry dealer obtains the poultry, the full amount due to such cash 
seller or poultry grower on account of such poultry.

(b) Delay or attempt to delay collection of funds as ``unfair practice''

    Any delay or attempt to delay, by a live poultry dealer which is a 
party to any such transaction, the collection of funds as herein 
provided, or otherwise for the purpose of or resulting in extending the 
normal period of payment for poultry obtained by poultry growing 
arrangement or purchased in a cash sale, shall be considered an ``unfair 
practice'' in violation of this chapter. Nothing in this section shall 
be deemed to limit the meaning of the term ``unfair practice'' as used 
in this chapter.

(c) Definition of cash sale

    For the purpose of this section, a cash sale means a sale in which 
the seller does not expressly extend credit to the buyer.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, Sec. 410, as added Pub. L. 100-173, 
Sec. 9(2), Nov. 23, 1987, 101 Stat. 920.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 410 of act Aug. 15, 1921, was renumbered section 414 
and is classified to section 228c of this title.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 90 days after Nov. 23, 1987, see section 12 of 
Pub. L. 100-173, set out as an Effective Date of 1987 Amendment note 
under section 182 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 197, 227, 228b-2 of this 
title.
