9 CFR § 202.2 - Definitions.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t9/s202.2"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "9 CFR § 202.2 - Definitions."
title_number: 9
title_name: "Animals and Animal Products"
section_number: "202.2"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (FAIR TRADE PRACTICES PROGRAM), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
part_number: "202"
part_name: "RULES OF PRACTICE GOVERNING PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 228(a); 7 CFR 2.22 and 2.81."
regulatory_source: "43 FR 30510, July 14, 1978, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "202"
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# 202.2 Definitions.
As used in these rules:
(a) *Rate proceeding* means a proceeding involving the determination and prescription of any rate or charge made or proposed to be made for any stockyard service furnished at a stockyard by a stockyard owner or market agency, or a proceeding involving any rule, regulation or practice affecting any such rate or charge; and
(b) *Administrator* means the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), or any officer or employee of AMS to whom authority has heretofore been delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act for the Administrator.
[43 FR 30510, July 14, 1978, as amended at 84 FR 45647, Aug. 30, 2019; 84 FR 56678, Oct. 23, 2019; 88 FR 62696, Sept. 13, 2023]