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Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§228b–1 Final Date for Making Payment to Cash Seller or Poultry Grower

Title 7 › Chapter 9— PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS › Subchapter V— GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 228b–1

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Live poultry dealers must pay the full amount owed to the seller or grower they got birds from. If the birds were bought in a cash sale, payment must be made by the end of the next business day after the purchase. If the birds came from a growing arrangement, payment must be made by the end of the 15th day after the week the birds were slaughtered. Trying to delay or stretch out the normal payment time is an unfair practice. A cash sale means the seller did not give the buyer credit.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §228b–1

Agriculture, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

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

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

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

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 228b–1

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60