7 USC § 206 - Rates and charges generally; discrimination

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identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s206"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "7 USC § 206 - Rates and charges generally; discrimination"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "206"
section_name: "Rates and charges generally; discrimination"
chapter_number: 9
chapter_name: "PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 305, 42 Stat. 164; Pub. L. 95–409, § 1(a), Oct. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 886.)"
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# § 206. Rates and charges generally; discrimination

*Provided*

All rates or charges made for any stockyard services furnished at a stockyard by a stockyard owner or market agency shall be just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory, and any unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory rate or charge is prohibited and declared to be unlawful: , That rates and charges based upon percentages of the gross sales prices of livestock shall not be prohibited merely because they are based upon such percentages rather than on a per head basis.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 305, 42 Stat. 164; Pub. L. 95–409, § 1(a), Oct. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 886.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978— inserted proviso that rates and charges based upon percentages of gross sales of livestock shall not be prohibited merely because based on such percentages rather than on a per head basis.