Volume 67
Public Law 83–261
To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended.
Approved August 13, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 508 (a) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended (7 Lb S. C. 1508 (a)),
is amended as follows:
By striking out the fourth sentence and inserting in lieu thereof
Increase in number of counties.
“Beginning with crops planted for harvest in 1954, crop insurance may be offered each year in not to exceed 100 counties in addition to the number of counties in which such insurance was offered in the preceding year. In determining the new counties in which such insurance is to be offered and the commodities to be insured, the Corporation shall take into consideration the demand of farmers for such insurance, the extent to which such insurance is available to commercial producers of insured commodities, and the anticipated risk of loss to the Corporation.”
By striking out the period at the end of the next to the last sentence and inserting “, except that insurance may be provided for producers on farms situated in a local producing area bordering on to county with a crop-insurance program.”
Approved August 13, 1953.