---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 205"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "205"
heading: "General duty as to services; revocation of registration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/205"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards"
  - "Subchapter III — Stockyards and Stockyard Dealers"
---

# §205. General duty as to services; revocation of registration


All [stockyard services](/usc/7/201.md?p=b) furnished pursuant to reasonable request made to a [stockyard owner](/usc/7/201.md?p=a) or [market agency](/usc/7/201.md?p=c) at such [stockyard](/usc/7/202.md?p=a) shall be reasonable and nondiscriminatory and [stockyard services](/usc/7/201.md?p=b) which are furnished shall not be refused on any basis that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory: Provided, That in any [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) where the weighing of [livestock](/usc/7/182.md?p=4) at a [stockyard](/usc/7/202.md?p=a) is conducted by a duly authorized department or agency of the [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), the [Secretary](/usc/7/182.md?p=2), upon application of such department or agency, may register it as a [market agency](/usc/7/201.md?p=c) for the weighing of [livestock](/usc/7/182.md?p=4) received in such [stockyard](/usc/7/202.md?p=a), and upon such registration such department or agency and the members thereof shall be amenable to all the requirements of this chapter, and upon failure of such department or agency or the members thereof to comply with the orders of the [Secretary](/usc/7/182.md?p=2) under this chapter he is authorized to revoke the registration of such department or agency and to enforce such revocation as provided in [section 216 of this title](/usc/7/216.md).


## Source credit

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 164; May 5, 1926, ch. 240, 44 Stat. 397; Pub. L. 90–446, § 1(c), July 31, 1968, 82 Stat. 474.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1968—Pub. L. 90–446 inserted provision requiring that stockyard services which are furnished not be refused on any basis that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory.

1926—Act May 5, 1926, inserted proviso.