Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 33 — Farm Tenancy
§ 1006a. Loans to homestead or desertland entrymen and purchasers of lands in reclamation projects; security; first repayment installment
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make a loan or loans for any purpose authorized by and in accordance with the terms of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, or the Act of , as amended, to any person eligible for assistance under said Acts who has made or makes a homestead or desertland entry on public land or who has contracted for or contracts for the purchase of other land of the United States in a reclamation project pursuant to the applicable provisions of the homestead and reclamation laws. Any such loans required by the Secretary of Agriculture or by law to be secured by a real-estate mortgage may be secured by a mortgage contract which shall create a lien against the land in favor of the United States acting through the Secretary of Agriculture and any patent thereafter issued shall recite the existence of such lien. The first installment for the repayment of any such loan or any other loan made under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, or the Act of , as amended, to the owner of a newly irrigated farm in a reclamation project or to an entryman under the desertland laws, may be deferred for a period of not to exceed two years from the date of the first advance under such loan.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 81–697 § 1 · 63 Stat. 883
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 1006a
Oct. 19, 1949, ch. 697, § 1, 63 Stat. 883
Source evidence
Code source credit
Oct. 19, 1949, ch. 697, § 1, 63 Stat. 883Rural Development Act of 1972
Pub. L. 92–419 title VI § 602 · 86 Stat. 657
Changed · 7 U.S.C. § 1006a
Pub. L. 92–419 authorized loans to desertland entrymen and provided for first repayment installment of a loan to an entryman under the desertland laws
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 92–419 authorized loans to desertland entrymen and provided for first repayment installment of a loan to an entryman under the desertland laws.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 602. Desertland Entrymen.— (a) The first sentence of the Act entitled “An Act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to extend financial assistance to homestead entrymen, and for other purposes”, approved October 19, 1949 (63 Stat. 883; 7 U.S.C. 1006a), is amended by striking out “homestead entry” and inserting in lieu thereof “homestead or desertland entry” (b) The last sentence of the first section of such Act is amended by striking out. “reclamation project” and inserting in lieu thereof “reclamation project or to an entryman under the desert hind laws”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, referred to in text, is act July 22, 1937, ch. 517, 50 Stat. 522, which is classified generally to this chapter (§ 1000 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1000 of this title and Tables.
Act of , referred to in text, was classified to sections 590r to 590x–4 of Title 16, Conservation, and was repealed by Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 341(a), , 75 Stat. 318. See section 921 et seq. of this title.
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, which constitutes a major part of this chapter.
Amendments
1972—Pub. L. 92–419 authorized loans to desertland entrymen and provided for first repayment installment of a loan to an entryman under the desertland laws.
Credits
1949–1972 · 2 acts
- 1949Oct. 19, 1949, ch. 697, § 1, 63 Stat. 883
- 1972Pub. L. 92–419, title VI, § 602, , 86 Stat. 675.
Show as published
(Oct. 19, 1949, ch. 697, § 1, 63 Stat. 883; Pub. L. 92–419, title VI, § 602, , 86 Stat. 675.)