South Dakota § 40-15B-8 - Certain acts by packers prohibited.
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§ 40-15B-8. Certain acts by packers prohibited.
No packer, with respect to livestock, meats, meat food products, or livestock products in unmanufactured form, and no live poultry dealer with respect to live poultry, may:
(1) Engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device;
(2) Make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in any respect whatsoever, or subject any particular person or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever;
(3) Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other packer or any live poultry dealer, or buy or otherwise receive from or for any other packer or any live poultry dealer, any article for the purpose or with the effect of apportioning the supply between any such persons, if the apportionment has the tendency or effect of restraining commerce or of creating a monopoly;
(4) Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other person, or buy or otherwise receive from or for any other person, any article for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any article, or of restraining commerce;
(5) Engage in any course of business or do any act for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any article, or of restraining commerce;
(6) Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person to apportion territory for carrying on business, or to apportion purchases or sales of any article, or to manipulate or control prices; or
(7) Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person to do, or aid and abet the doing of, any act made unlawful by subdivisions (1) to (5), inclusive, of this section.
Source: SL 1999, ch 205, § 2.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 40-15B-8 ("Certain acts by packers prohibited.") is part of the South Dakota Codified Laws, the codified statutory law of South Dakota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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