Pub. L. 82-429, tit. I, sec. 111

Sec. 111. Section 402 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: “(l) No rule, regulation, order, or amendment thereto issued under this title shall fix a ceiling on the price paid or received on the sale or delivery of any material in any State below the minimum sales price of such material fixed by the State law (other than any so-called ‘fair trade law’) now in effect, or by regulation issued pursuant to such law. “(m) No rule, regulation, order, or amendment thereto shall be issued or maintained under this title, which shall deny to any hotel supply house or combination distributor, affiliated with any slaughterer or slaughtering establishment, or to any wholesaler so affiliated but whose affiliation does not amount to an interest or equity of more than 50 per centum, the same ceiling price or prices for meat accorded to hotel supply houses, combination distributors, or wholesalers which are not so affiliated. “(n) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, whenever price ceilings are declared in effect on any agricultural commodity at the farm level, the Director of Price Stabilization must, at the same time put into effect margin controls on processors, wholesalers, and retailers, such margin controls to allow the processors, wholesalers, and retailers the normal markups as provided under this Act, except that under no circumstances are the sellers to be allowed greater than their normal margins of profit.”