---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 216"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "216"
heading: "Proceedings to enforce orders; injunction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/216"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards"
  - "Subchapter III — Stockyards and Stockyard Dealers"
---

# §216. Proceedings to enforce orders; injunction


If any [stockyard owner](/usc/7/201.md?p=a), [market agency](/usc/7/201.md?p=c), or [dealer](/usc/7/201.md?p=d) fails to obey any order of the [Secretary](/usc/7/182.md?p=2) other than for the payment of money while the same is in effect, the [Secretary](/usc/7/182.md?p=2), or any party injured thereby, or the United States by its Attorney General, may apply to the district court for the district in which such [person](/usc/7/182.md?p=1) has his principal place of business for the enforcement of such order. If after hearing the court determines that the order was lawfully made and duly served and that such [person](/usc/7/182.md?p=1) is in disobedience of the same, the court shall enforce obedience to such order by a writ of injunction or other proper process, mandatory or otherwise, to restrain such [person](/usc/7/182.md?p=1), his officers, agents, or representatives from further disobedience of such order or to enjoin upon him or them obedience to the same.


## Source credit

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 315, 42 Stat. 167.)

## Notes

### Court Rules

### Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Injunctions, see rule 65, Title 28, Appendix, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.