7 U.S.C. § 202
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS1968-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90-446 substituted "operated, or managed for profit or nonprofit as a public market for livestock producers, feeders, market agencies, and buyers" for "or operated for compensation or profit as a public market".1958-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-909 struck out "Said sections shall not apply to a stockyard of which the area normally available for handling livestock, exclusive of runs, alleys, or passage ways, is less than twenty thousand square feet."
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
TRANSPORTATION OF LIVESTOCKPub. L. 85-909, §2(2), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1750, provided in part: "That nothing herein [this section] shall be deemed a definition of the term 'public stockyards' as used in section 15(5) of the Interstate Commerce Act [former 49 U.S.C. 15(5) ]".
- Secretary
- The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture;
- commerce
- The term "commerce" means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; or between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof; or within any Territory or possession, or the District of Columbia.
- livestock
- The term "livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, or goats-whether live or dead;