202A.7  Penalties.

1.  A packer who fails to file a timely, accurate, or complete purchase report as required pursuant to section 202A.2 is subject to a civil penalty of not more than five thousand dollars. Each failure by a packer to file a timely, accurate, or complete purchase report constitutes a separate violation.

2.  A packer who fails to post a timely, accurate, or complete purchase notice as required pursuant to section 202A.3 is subject to a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars. Each failure by a packer to post a timely, accurate, or complete purchase notice constitutes a separate violation.

3.  A packer who includes a confidentiality provision in a contract with a livestock seller in violation of section 202A.4 is guilty of a fraudulent practice as provided in section 714.8.

Section History: Recent form

  99 Acts, ch 88, §8, 11, 13

Footnotes

  Subsections 1 and 2 effective July 1, 2000; 99 Acts, ch 88, §13

  Future repeal of subsections 1 and 2 if substantially similar federal legislation or regulation is implemented; finding and order by secretary of agriculture; see 99 Acts, ch 88, §11


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