49 USC § 13713 - Food and grocery transportation

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title: "49 USC § 13713 - Food and grocery transportation"
title_number: 49
title_name: "TRANSPORTATION"
section_number: "13713"
section_name: "Food and grocery transportation"
chapter_number: 137
chapter_name: "RATES AND THROUGH ROUTES"
part_number: "B"
part_name: "MOTOR CARRIERS, WATER CARRIERS, BROKERS, AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 879.)"
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# § 13713. Food and grocery transportation

**(a)** **Certain Compensation Prohibited.—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a seller of food and grocery products using a uniform zone delivered pricing system to compensate a customer who picks up purchased food and grocery products at the shipping point of the seller if such compensation is available to all customers of the seller on a nondiscriminatory basis and does not exceed the actual cost to the seller of delivery to such customer.

**(b)** **Sense of Congress.—** It is the sense of the Congress that any savings accruing to a customer by reason of compensation permitted by subsection (a) of this section should be passed on to the ultimate consumer.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 879.)

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