Title 9, Part 201 — Administering the Packers and Stockyards Act

Meaning of words.

Terms defined.

Applicability of regulations in this part.

Authority.

Bylaws, rules and regulations, and requirements of exchanges, associations, or other organizations; applicability, establishment.

Requirements and procedures.

Suspended registrants; officers, agents, and employees.

Requirements for filing tariffs.

Underwriter; equivalent in lieu of bonds; standard forms.

Duplicates of bonds or equivalents to be filed with Regional Directors.

Market agencies, packers and dealers required to file and maintain bonds.

Amount of market agency, dealer and packer bonds.

Conditions in market agency, dealer and packer bonds.

Trustee in market agency, dealer and packer bonds.

Persons damaged may maintain suit; filing and notification of claims; time limitations; legal expenses.

Termination of market agency, dealer and packer bonds.

Payment to be made to consignor or shipper by market agencies; exceptions.

Custodial accounts for trust funds.

Payment and accounting for livestock and live poultry.

Market agencies to render prompt accounting for purchases on order.

Market agencies to make records available for inspection by owners, consignors, and purchasers.

Requirements regarding scale tickets evidencing weighing of livestock, live poultry, and feed.

Persons subject to the Act not to circulate misleading reports about market conditions or prices.

Purchases, sales, acquisitions, payments and settlements to be made on actual weights.

Market agencies selling on commission; purchases from consignment.

Market agencies selling or purchasing livestock on commission; relationships with dealers.

Packers not to own or finance selling agencies.

Furnishing information to competitor buyers.

Restriction or limitation of competition between packers and dealers prohibited.

Scales and or Electronic Evaluation Devices or Systems; accurate weights and measures, repairs, adjustments or replacements after inspection.

Scales; testing of.

Scale operators to be qualified.

Instructions for weighing livestock.

Reweighing.

Suspended registrants.

Care and promptness in weighing and handling livestock and live poultry.

Brand inspection: Application for authorization, registration and filing of schedules, reciprocal arrangements, and maintenance of identity of consignments.

Information as to business; furnishing of by packers, swine contractors, live poultry dealers, stockyard owners, market agencies, and dealers.

Inspection of business records and facilities.

Unauthorized disclosure of business information prohibited.

Annual reports.

Packers and dealers not to charge, demand, or collect commission, yardage, or other service charges.

Purchase of livestock by packers on a carcass grade, carcass weight, or carcass grade and weight basis.

Records to be furnished poultry growers and sellers.

Disclosures for broiler production.

Disclosures for broiler grower ranking system payments.

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Instructions for weighing live poultry or feed.

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Sale of livestock on credit.

Undue or unreasonable preferences or advantages.

§§ 201.213-201.214 [Reserved]

Suspension of delivery of birds.

Additional capital investments criteria.

Reasonable period of time to remedy a breach of contract.

Arbitration.

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§§ 201.300-201.301 [Reserved]

Definitions.

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Undue prejudices or disadvantages and unjust discriminatory practices.

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Deceptive practices.

§§ 201.307-201.308 [Reserved]

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Severability.