[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR201.86]

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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. 201.86  Brand inspection: Application for authorization, registration 

and filing of schedules, reciprocal arrangements, and maintenance of 
identity of consignments.

    (a) Application for authorization. Any department or agency or duly-
organized livestock association of any State in which branding or 
marking of livestock as a means of establishing ownership prevails by 
custom or statute, which desires to obtain an authorization to charge 
and collect a fee for the inspection of brands, marks, and other 
identifying characteristics of livestock, as provided in section 317 of 
the Act, shall file with the Administrator an application in writing for 
such authorization. In case two or more applications for authorization 
to collect a fee for the inspection of brands, marks, and other 
identifying characteristics of livestock are received from the same 
State, a hearing will be held to determine which applicant is best 
qualified.
    (b) Registration and filing of schedules. Upon the issuance of an 
authorization to an agency or an association, said agency or association 
shall register as a market agency in accordance with the provisions of 
Sec. 201.10, except that no bond need be filed or maintained, and shall 
file a schedule of its rates and charges for performing the service in 
the manner and form prescribed by Sec. 201.17.
    (c) Reciprocal arrangements. Any authorized agency or association 
may make arrangements with an association or associations in the same or 
in another State, where branding or marking livestock prevails by custom 
or statute, to perform inspection service at stockyards on such terms 
and conditions as may be approved by the Administrator: Provided, That 
such arrangements will tend to further the purpose of the Act and will 
not result in duplication of charges or services.
    (d) Maintenance of identity of consignments. All persons having 
custody at the stockyard of livestock subject to inspection shall 
preserve the identity of the consignment until inspection has been 
completed by the authorized inspection agency. Agencies authorized to 
conduct such inspection shall perform the work as soon after receipt of 
the livestock as practicable and as rapidly as is reasonably possible in 
order to prevent delay in marketing, shrinkage in weight, or other 
avoidable losses.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0580-0015)

(7 U.S.C. 203, 204, 207, 217a, 222 and 228)

[49 FR 33005, Aug. 20, 1984, as amended at 68 FR 75388, Dec. 31, 2003]

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