Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60
§208 Unreasonable or Discriminatory Practices Generally; Rights of Stockyard Owner of Management and Regulation
Title 7 › Chapter 9— PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS › Subchapter III— STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS › § 208
Summary
Owners of stockyards and market agencies must set up and follow fair, reasonable, and not‑discriminatory rules for yard services. Unfair or biased rules or practices are illegal. Owners may run and make rules so the public market stays efficient and competitive, but they cannot stop registered agencies or dealers from serving other markets or doing occasional off‑market sales.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §208
Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)It shall be the duty of every stockyard owner and market agency to establish, observe, and enforce just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory regulations and practices in respect to the furnishing of stockyard services, and every unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory regulation or practice is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
(b)It shall be the responsibility and right of every stockyard owner to manage and regulate his stockyard in a just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory manner, to prescribe rules and regulations and to require those persons engaging in or attempting to engage in the purchase, sale, or solicitation of livestock at such stockyard to conduct their operations in a manner which will foster, preserve, or insure an efficient, competitive public market. Such rules and regulations shall not prevent a registered market agency or dealer from rendering service on other markets or in occasional and incidental off-market transactions.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1968—Pub. L. 90–446 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 208
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60