§197 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

Live poultry dealers must hold any live poultry they buy (including under growing agreements), plus related inventory and receivables or proceeds, in a trust for sellers or growers who have not been paid. The trust stays in place until those sellers or growers receive full payment. Dealers with average annual sales or value of such poultry of $100,000 or less are not covered. A payment is not valid if a payment instrument is dishonored. To keep trust rights, an unpaid seller or grower must give written notice to the dealer and file it with the Secretary: within 30 days after the final payment date set by law, or within 15 business days after being told a payment instrument was dishonored. A "cash sale" means the seller did not agree to give credit.

Title 7, §197

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(a)It is hereby found that a burden on and obstruction to commerce in poultry is caused by financing arrangements under which live poultry dealers encumber, give lenders security interest in, or place liens on, poultry obtained by such persons by purchase in cash sales or by poultry growing arrangements, or on inventories of or receivables or proceeds from such poultry or poultry products therefrom, when payment is not made for the poultry and that such financing arrangements are contrary to the public interest. This section is intended to remedy such burden on and obstruction to commerce in poultry and protect the public interest.

(b)All poultry obtained by a live poultry dealer, by purchase in cash sales or by poultry growing arrangement, and all inventories of, or receivables or proceeds from such poultry or poultry products derived therefrom, shall be held by such live poultry dealer in trust for the benefit of all unpaid cash sellers or poultry growers of such poultry, until full payment has been received by such unpaid cash sellers or poultry growers, unless such live poultry dealer does not have average annual sales of live poultry, or average annual value of live poultry obtained by purchase or by poultry growing arrangement, in excess of $100,000.

(c)Payment shall not be considered to have been made if the cash seller or poultry grower receives a payment instrument which is dishonored.

(d)The unpaid cash seller or poultry grower shall lose the benefit of such trust if, in the event that a payment instrument has not been received, within 30 days of the final date for making payment under section 228b–1 of this title, or within 15 business days after the seller or poultry grower has received notice that the payment instrument promptly presented for payment has been dishonored, the seller or poultry grower has not preserved his trust under this section. The trust shall be preserved by giving written notice to the live poultry dealer and by filing such notice with the Secretary.

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

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Section effective 90 days after Nov. 23, 1987, see section 12 of Pub. L. 100–173, set out as an

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of 1987 Amendment note under section 182 of this title.

§197 Statutory trust established; poultry

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Title 7, §197

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