[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

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]



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