7 U.S.C. § 1636d — Recordkeeping

submitted 80 years ago by Pub. L. 106-78 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 180 words · no verdicts yet

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This section requires covered packers to keep transaction and verification records for 2 years. It limits burdensome new record demands and requires purchase-time records for cattle and swine.

(a) Subject to (b), each packer required to report under this subchapter must keep, and give the Secretary on request, for 2 years: (1) original contracts, agreements, receipts, and other records for transactions involving the purchase, sale, pricing, transportation, delivery, weighing, slaughter, or carcass characteristics of all livestock; and (2) records or other information needed or appropriate to check the accuracy of required reports.
(b) For information under (a)(2), the Secretary may not require new information if (1) packers generally do not have or maintain it, or (2) providing it would be unduly burdensome.
(c) A record of a packer’s purchase of a lot of cattle or swine must show whether the purchase occurred (1) before 10:00 a.m. Central Time, (2) from 10:00 a.m. through 2:00 p.m. Central Time, or (3) after 2:00 p.m. Central Time.

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(a) In general

Subject to subsection (b), each packer required to report information to the Secretary under this subchapter shall maintain, and make available to the Secretary on request, for 2 years—

(1)

the original contracts, agreements, receipts and other records associated with any transaction relating to the purchase, sale, pricing, transportation, delivery, weighing, slaughter, or carcass characteristics of all livestock; and

(2)

such records or other information as is necessary or appropriate to verify the accuracy of the information required to be reported under this subchapter.

(b) Limitations

Under subsection (a)(2), the Secretary may not require a packer to provide new or additional information if—

(1)

the information is not generally available or maintained by packers; or

(2)

the provision of the information would be unduly burdensome.

A record of a purchase of a lot of cattle or a lot of swine by a packer shall evidence whether the purchase occurred—

(1)

before 10:00 a.m. Central Time;

(2)

between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Central Time; or

(3)

after 2:00 p.m. Central Time.

Source credit: (Aug. 14, 1946, ch. 966, title II, § 255, as added Pub. L. 106–78, title IX, § 911(2), Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1203.)

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1946Enacted · Pub. L. 106-78 · 113 Stat. 1203

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