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[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
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  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC201]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
            SUBCHAPTER III--STOCKYARDS AND STOCKYARD DEALERS
 
Sec. 201. ``Stockyard owner''; ``stockyard services''; ``market 
        agency''; ``dealer''; defined
        
    When used in this chapter--
    (a) The term ``stockyard owner'' means any person engaged in the 
business of conducting or operating a stockyard;
    (b) The term ``stockyard services'' means services or facilities 
furnished at a stockyard in connection with the receiving, buying, or 
selling on a commission basis or otherwise, marketing, feeding, 
watering, holding, delivery, shipment, weighing, or handling in 
commerce, or livestock;
    (c) The term ``market agency'' means any person engaged in the 
business of (1) buying or selling in commerce livestock on a commission 
basis or (2) furnishing stockyard services; and
    (d) The term ``dealer'' means any person, not a market agency, 
engaged in the business of buying or selling in commerce livestock, 
either on his own account or as the employee or agent of the vendor or 
purchaser.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, Sec. 301, 42 Stat. 163; Pub. L. 85-
909, Sec. 2(1), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1750; Pub. L. 94-410, Sec. 3(c), 
Sept. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 1249.)


                               Amendments

    1976--Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 94-410 substituted ``livestock'' 
for ``live stock''.
    1958--Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 85-909 struck out ``at a 
stockyard'' after ``livestock''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 203 of this title.