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Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102

§205 General Duty as to Services; Revocation of Registration

Title 7 › CHAPTER 9 — PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS › SUBCHAPTER III — STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS › § 205

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Stockyard owners and market agencies must give services when someone makes a reasonable request. Those services must be fair and not discriminate, and they cannot be refused for an unreasonable or unfair reason. If a State department or agency officially weighs livestock at a stockyard, the Secretary can register that agency as a market agency if the agency asks. Once registered, the agency and its members must follow the chapter’s rules. If they do not, the Secretary can revoke the registration and enforce that revocation under section 216.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §205

Agriculture, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

All stockyard services furnished pursuant to reasonable request made to a stockyard owner or market agency at such stockyard shall be reasonable and nondiscriminatory and stockyard services which are furnished shall not be refused on any basis that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory: Provided, That in any State where the weighing of livestock at a stockyard is conducted by a duly authorized department or agency of the State, the Secretary, upon application of such department or agency, may register it as a market agency for the weighing of livestock received in such stockyard, and upon such registration such department or agency and the members thereof shall be amenable to all the requirements of this chapter, and upon failure of such department or agency or the members thereof to comply with the orders of the Secretary under this chapter he is authorized to revoke the registration of such department or agency and to enforce such revocation as provided in section 216 of this title.

Legislative History

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Amendments

1968—Pub. L. 90–446 inserted provision requiring that stockyard services which are furnished not be refused on any basis that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory. 1926—Act May 5, 1926, inserted proviso.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 205

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102