---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 214"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "214"
heading: "Effective date of orders"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/214"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards"
  - "Subchapter III — Stockyards and Stockyard Dealers"
---

# §214. Effective date of orders


Except as otherwise provided in this chapter all [orders](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) of the [Secretary](/usc/7/182.md?p=2) under this subchapter, other than [orders](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) for the payment of money, shall take effect within such reasonable time, not less than five days, as is prescribed in the [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10), and shall continue in force until his further [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10), or for a specified period of time, according as is prescribed in the [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10), unless such [order](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) is suspended or modified or set aside by the [Secretary](/usc/7/182.md?p=2) or is suspended or set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction.


## Source credit

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title III, § 313, 42 Stat. 167.)