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7 U.S.C. § 223 — Responsibility of principal for act or omission of agent
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When construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of any agent, officer, or other person acting for or employed by any packer, any swine contractor, and any live poultry dealer, stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer, within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case also be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such packer, any swine contractor, and any live poultry dealer, stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer, as well as that of such agent, officer, or other person.
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When construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of any agent, officer, or other person acting for or employed by any packer, any swine contractor, and any live poultry dealer, stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer, within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case also be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such packer, any swine contractor, and any live poultry dealer, stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer, as well as that of such agent, officer, or other person.
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When used in this chapter—
(1) The term “person” includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations;
(2) The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture;
(3) The term “meat food products” means all products and byproducts of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry—if edible;
(4) The term “livestock” means cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, or goats—whether live or dead;
(5) The term “livestock products” means all products and byproducts (other than meats and meat food products) of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry derived in whole or in part from livestock;
(6) The term “poultry” means chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other domestic fowl;
(7) The term “poultry product” means any product or byproduct of the business of slaughtering poultry and processing poultry after slaughter;
(8) The term “poultry grower” means any person engaged in the business of raising and caring for live poultry for slaughter by another, whether the poultry is owned by such person or by another, but not an employee of the owner of such poultry;
(9) The term “poultry growing arrangement” means any growout contract, marketing agreement, or other arrangement under which a poultry grower raises and cares for live poultry for delivery, in accord with another’s instructions, for slaughter;
(10) The term “live poultry dealer” means any person engaged in the business of obtaining live poultry by purchase or under a poultry growing arrangement for the purpose of either slaughtering it or selling it for slaughter by another, if poultry is obtained by such person in commerce, or if poultry obtained by such person is sold or shipped in commerce, or if poultry products from poultry obtained by such person are sold or shipped in commerce; and
(11) The term “
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 223
(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 402, 42 Stat. 168;
Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title V, § 503, as added Aug.
14, 1935, ch. 532, 49 Stat. 649.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1935—Act Aug. 15, 1921, § 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935,
purported to insert ‘‘or any live poultry dealer or han-
dler’’ after ‘‘packer’’ but word ‘‘packer’’ does not ap-
pear in this section.
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Executive and administrative functions of Federal
Trade Commission, with certain reservations, trans-
ferred to Chairman of such Commission by 1950 Reorg.
Plan No. 8, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat.
1264, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Or-
ganization and Employees.
§ 223. Responsibility of principal for act or omis-
sion of agent
When construing and enforcing the provisions
of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of
any agent, officer, or other person acting for or
employed by any packer, any swine contractor,
and any live poultry dealer, stockyard owner,
market agency, or dealer, within the scope of
his employment or office, shall in every case
also be deemed the act, omission, or failure of
such packer, any swine contractor, and any live
poultry dealer, stockyard owner, market agen-
cy, or dealer, as well as that of such agent, offi-
cer, or other person.
(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 403, 42 Stat. 168;
Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title V, § 503, as added Aug.
14, 1935, ch. 532, 49 Stat. 649; amended Pub. L.
100–173, § 6, Nov. 23, 1987, 101 Stat. 918; Pub. L.
107–171, title X, § 10502(b)(2)(C), May 13, 2002, 116
Stat. 510.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2002—Pub. L. 107–171 inserted ‘‘any swine contractor,
and’’ after ‘‘packer,’’ in two places.
1987—Pub. L. 100–173 substitu
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