---
kind: "unit"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
key: "ch9/schV"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter V"
heading: "General Provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/ch9-schV"
sections_count: 20
---

# Subchapter V — General Provisions

Title 7 — Agriculture › Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards

## Sections

- [§221. Accounts and records of business; punishment for failure to keep](/usc/7/221.md)
- [§222. Federal Trade Commission powers adopted for enforcement of chapter](/usc/7/222.md)
- [§223. Responsibility of principal for act or omission of agent](/usc/7/223.md)
- [§224. Attorney General to institute court proceedings for enforcement](/usc/7/224.md)
- [§225. Laws unaffected](/usc/7/225.md)
- [§226. Powers of Interstate Commerce Commission unaffected](/usc/7/226.md)
- [§227. Powers of Federal Trade Commission and Secretary of Agriculture](/usc/7/227.md)
- [§228. Authority of Secretary](/usc/7/228.md)
- [§228a. Authority of Secretary to request temporary injunction or restraining order](/usc/7/228a.md)
- [§228b. Prompt payment for purchase of livestock](/usc/7/228b.md)
- [§228b–1. Final date for making payment to cash seller or poultry grower](/usc/7/228b-1.md)
- [§228b–2. Violations by live poultry dealers](/usc/7/228b-2.md)
- [§228b–3. Judicial review of order regarding live poultry dealer](/usc/7/228b-3.md)
- [§228b–4. Violation of final order by live poultry dealer; penalty](/usc/7/228b-4.md)
- [§228c. Federal preemption of State and local requirements](/usc/7/228c.md)
- [§228d. Annual assessment of cattle and hog industries](/usc/7/228d.md)
- [§229. Repealed.](/usc/7/229.md)
- [§229a. Repealed.](/usc/7/229a.md)
- [§229b. Right to discuss terms of contract](/usc/7/229b.md)
- [§229c. Separability](/usc/7/229c.md)