---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 224"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "224"
heading: "Attorney General to institute court proceedings for enforcement"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/224"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Packers and Stockyards"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §224. Attorney General to institute court proceedings for enforcement


The [Secretary](/usc/7/182.md?p=2) may report any violation of this chapter to the Attorney General of the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8), who shall cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the proper courts of the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) without delay.


## Source credit

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title IV, § 404, 42 Stat. 168; Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title V, § 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 532, 49 Stat. 649.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1935—Act Aug. 15, 1921, title V, § 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, purported to insert “or any live poultry dealer or handler” after “packer” but word “packer” does not appear in this section.