7 U.S.C. § 221
Accounts and records of business; punishment for failure to keep
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
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- 7 U.S.C. § 221, Accounts and records of business; punishment for failure to keep, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/428703
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Every packer, any swine contractor, and any live poultry dealer, stockyard owner, market agency, and dealer shall keep such accounts, records, and memoranda as fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in his business, including the true ownership of such business by stockholding or otherwise. Whenever the Secretary finds that the accounts, records, and memoranda of any such person do not fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in his business, the Secretary may prescribe the manner and form in which such accounts, records, and memoranda shall be kept, and thereafter any such person who fails to keep such accounts, records, and memoranda in the manner and form prescribed or approved by the Secretary shall upon conviction be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Poultry Producers Financial Protection Act of 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002