---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 206"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "206"
heading: "Rates and charges generally; discrimination"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/206"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards"
  - "Subchapter III — Stockyards and Stockyard Dealers"
---

# §206. Rates and charges generally; discrimination


All rates or charges made for any [stockyard services](/usc/7/201.md?p=b) furnished at a [stockyard](/usc/7/202.md?p=a) by a [stockyard owner](/usc/7/201.md?p=a) or [market agency](/usc/7/201.md?p=c) shall be just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory, and any unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory rate or charge is prohibited and declared to be unlawful: Provided, That rates and charges based upon percentages of the gross sales prices of [livestock](/usc/7/182.md?p=4) shall not be prohibited merely because they are based upon such percentages rather than on a per head basis.


## Source credit

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 305, 42 Stat. 164; Pub. L. 95–409, § 1(a), Oct. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 886.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–409 inserted proviso that rates and charges based upon percentages of gross sales of livestock shall not be prohibited merely because based on such percentages rather than on a per head basis.