[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

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[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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