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[CITE: 7USC228c]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER V--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 228c. Federal preemption of State and local requirements

    No requirement of any State or territory of the United States, or 
any subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, with respect to 
bonding of packers or prompt payment by packers for livestock purchases 
may be enforced upon any packer operating in compliance with the bonding 
provisions under section 204 of this title, and prompt payment 
provisions of section 228b of this title, respectively: Provided, That 
this section shall not preclude a State from enforcing a requirement, 
with respect to payment for livestock purchased by a packer at a 
stockyard subject to this chapter, which is not in conflict with this 
chapter or regulations thereunder: Provided further, That this section 
shall not preclude a State from enforcing State law or regulations with 
respect to any packer not subject to this chapter or section 204 of this 
title.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, Sec. 414, formerly Sec. 410, as added 
Pub. L. 94-410, Sec. 9, Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1252; renumbered 
Sec. 414, Pub. L. 100-173, Sec. 9(1), Nov. 23, 1987, 101 Stat. 919.)
