[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2, Parts 200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR201.82]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER II--GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION 
       (PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS PROGRAMS),DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 201--REGULATIONS UNDER THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 201.82  Care and promptness in weighing and handling livestock and live poultry.

    (a) Each stockyard owner, market agency, dealer, packer and live 
poultry dealer shall exercise reasonable care and promptness with 
respect to loading, transporting, holding, yarding, feeding, watering, 
weighing or otherwise handling livestock or live poultry to prevent 
waste of feed, shrinkage, injury, death or other avoidable loss.
    (b) Whenever live poultry is obtained under a poultry growing 
arrangement, the poultry shall be transported promptly after loading and 
the gross weight for grower payment purposes shall be determined 
immediately upon arrival at the processing plant, holding yard, or other 
scale normally used for such purpose.

[54 FR 16356, Apr. 24, 1989; 54 FR 18713, May 2, 1989]

                          Inspection of Brands